570: COMPILATION: The Stories That Made Me a Believer

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So today's topics are true stories.

Speaker 13 So that means stories that are legitimately true, like true crime, things like that, but also a couple of stories that I thought were fake and I thought were debunked that it turned out

Speaker 13 they turned me into a believer.

Speaker 13 So those

Speaker 13 are interesting and those were unsettling.

Speaker 13 It's It's weird to have a certain belief for your whole life, do some research, and then have your whole world turned on its ear.

Speaker 13 Anyway, I don't have my teleprompter when I do these, so I tend to ramble, but I do have some notes so I know what episodes are coming up. Um, okay, first is episode,

Speaker 13 I'm spitting, spitting all over the microphone. You see, this is not a professional operation.
First episode is 137. Oh, that's Kenny Veech and the M Cave.
It was a highly requested topic, and

Speaker 13 writing it, writing it was weird because Kenny Veach and the M Cave that story has been told over and over like every story I tell it's not like I'm inventing anything new I'm just giving you my spin

Speaker 13 so I knew the Kenny Veach M Cave story for years and it's always told the same way you know Kenny is an eccentric guy he's an outdoorsy kind of guy He goes out hiking in the desert.

Speaker 13 He finds a cave that's shaped like the letter M. He feels some weird weird energy that he can't explain, something like evil.

Speaker 13 So he leaves, which is unusual for Kenny. He's, he's, um,

Speaker 13 he's the kind of guy who literally will like grab rattlesnakes out of the sand, like he's a wild man.

Speaker 13 So the fact that he's afraid of an empty cave is strange. So he's online talking about this cave, and

Speaker 13 people beg him to go back and find it and to stream it or take video or whatever. He was pretty active on social media and YouTube.
So he does

Speaker 13 and

Speaker 13 he can't find the cave. You know, he puts up a video of himself hiking, looking for it, the trails that he's on.

Speaker 13 He doesn't understand, but he can't find where this cave is.

Speaker 13 So people start attacking him online. You know, the trolls come out.
I know how Kenny feels. And he says, fine, I will go back out.
and I will not come back until I find this cave.

Speaker 13 Well, that's what happened. Kenny Veach went out looking for the M cave and he never returned.
The only thing that we ever found of him was his cell phone.

Speaker 13 And if you don't know the story, I don't want to spoil too much of it, but

Speaker 13 I have a different spin on Kenny Veach than everybody else. It's because

Speaker 13 he's always portrayed as kind of an eccentric, of a goofball, of a weirdo. And he is an odd guy.
That's certainly true.

Speaker 13 But the more I researched the story and the more I learned about his life and the things that he was going through at the time,

Speaker 13 I began to root for Kenny.

Speaker 13 I became a fan of Kenny. So even though I was aware of all these eccentricities that he had, he was also very smart.
He was very, very talented. He could build anything.
He could fix anything.

Speaker 13 He was well loved by his family. He had a daughter that he loved.
He was a person.

Speaker 13 And I think,

Speaker 13 well, I don't want to get too much into it, but I get personal in this episode because,

Speaker 13 you know, it's the only way to

Speaker 13 tell you Kenny Beach's full story is to tell you a bit of mine.

Speaker 13 To most, the Mojave Desert looks like a barren wasteland, jagged rock, swirling sand, and scrub brush. But the Mojave is full of life.
It's been home to native tribes for thousands of years.

Speaker 13 And the Mojave is also home to many caves that hold many secrets. Some caves are reported to be secret entrances to underground bases.
And not all of those bases are occupied by humans.

Speaker 13 Other caves are rumored to be portals to different places on Earth, or portals to different dimensions.

Speaker 13 There are caves in the desert that cause even the most experienced explorers to run away in fear. But when they gather their courage and return to the caves, they can't find them.
They're gone.

Speaker 13 Year after year, adventurers scour the Mojave trying to solve these mysteries. Some brave souls return with incredible stories, but others go out into the desert and they're never seen again.

Speaker 13 Kenny Veach had a passion for the wilderness, but was especially attracted attracted to the Mojave Desert.

Speaker 13 Where most people see nothing but sand and scrub brush, Kenny saw a beautiful and vibrant ecosystem.

Speaker 18 And I just came across this fellow.

Speaker 19 It's been a while since I saw one. It's a nice little Mojave Desert tortoise.

Speaker 13 Kenny also had an interest in aliens and UFOs. He lived in Las Vegas and often hiked the desert not far from Area 51.

Speaker 13 He also spent a lot of time watching YouTube videos about aliens and conspiracy theories. One of his favorite channels.

Speaker 13 No, no, the wifiles wasn't around yet. But I have a feeling he would have liked this channel.

Speaker 21 And what's not the like?

Speaker 13 Check the comment section. They'll tell you.

Speaker 13 Which ex-wife?

Speaker 21 You have three. Exactly.

Speaker 13 A channel Kenny watched a lot is Serious Disclosure, run by Dr. Stephen Greer, who I'm sure you know.
But in case you don't, Dr.

Speaker 13 Greer has been one of the loudest voices pushing for the government to reveal what it knows about UFOs and aliens. One video caught Kenny's attention.

Speaker 13 It was about alternative energy being researched at Area 51.

Speaker 22 When they had tested a device that was supposed to be a new type of energy source, and they had taken it out into the range, and it had it literally blown up when they tried to activate it.

Speaker 13 People in the comments exchanged stories about strange phenomena that they had experienced. Kenny also weighed in.

Speaker 26 This ain't nothing. I am a long-distance hiker.
One time during one of my hikes out by Nellis Air Force Base, I found a hidden cave. The entrance to the cave was shaped like a perfect capital M.

Speaker 26 I always enter every cave I find, but as I began to enter this particular cave, my whole body began to vibrate.

Speaker 13 Whatever it was that Kenny was feeling seemed to be coming from inside the cave.

Speaker 26 The closer I got to the cave entrance, the worse the vibrating became. Suddenly, I became very scared and high-tailed it out of there.
That was one of the strangest things that ever happened to me.

Speaker 13 I'm sure it wasn't Kenny's intention, but he created one of the biggest internet mysteries in history, a rabbit hole known as the M-Cave.

Speaker 13 Tons of people responded to Kenny's comment. He went back and forth with people online for about four months.
Most were just internet trolls, which made Kenny defensive.

Speaker 26 I have been in more caves than I can count. I play with rattlesnakes for fun.

Speaker 13 Some commenters thought he was making it all up. Others said it was probably just an ordinary cave, and Kenny was dehydrated, so he was seeing things.
Kenny was an extreme hiker.

Speaker 13 He often went on desert hikes with nothing but a candy bar and a small bottle of water.

Speaker 13 Now, this is very unwise and extremely dangerous, but Kenny was proud of his ability to survive the desert with minimal provisions.

Speaker 18 I started at seven o'clock, but I'm thinking the sun might be down by the time I get back to my truck because I didn't bring a whole lot of water and I only got like one candy bar to get me through, but I like roughing it that way.

Speaker 13 But Kenny insisted there was something really off about this cave.

Speaker 26 This one particular cave was beyond anything I had ever encountered. Someday I'll go back and I'll bring a weapon with me.
All I had at the time was a knife and a a wrist rocket.

Speaker 13 They challenged Kenny to go back and find this mysterious M cave, if there even was such a thing. Kenny Beach could not back down from a challenge.
He insisted the M cave was real.

Speaker 13 Once the weather cooled down, Kenny was ready to try to relocate the M cave. And, as promised, he brought his camera with him.
He documented his search on his own YouTube channel.

Speaker 28 And I'm looking for a cave that I found, and

Speaker 28 I didn't have a sidearm when I was here before. And something about this cave just spooked me.
Out of all the caves I've ever gone in, this one just made my body vibrate.

Speaker 28 The closer I got to it, the crazier my body felt. And I was like, all right, I'm not going to go in there right now, but I'm coming back someday.

Speaker 13 The online community was thrilled. The search for the end cave was on.

Speaker 13 Kenny Beach was no stranger to the Mojave. He was an extreme hiker.
Kenny didn't follow trails. he blazed them.

Speaker 26 It's rare for me to take the same hike twice. I don't use trails and I cover extremely long distances.
It's brutal on the feet. I often will lose one or two toenails after one of my longer hikes.

Speaker 26 Yes, this is what I do for fun.

Speaker 13 Kenny headed off in the direction of the M Cave. And if you watch his video, you can tell that he's pretty confident that he could find it again.

Speaker 31 It's shaped like it's shaped just like the letter M and it's about it's about level with the ground, like right like an area like this.

Speaker 18 So I really got to keep my eyes peeled because I don't want to pass it.

Speaker 13 But despite his confidence, Kenny was ultimately disappointed.

Speaker 19 Well, I did not find the cave. I mean, I thought for sure I was just going to be able to find it.

Speaker 26 I remember it being fairly easy.

Speaker 30 Who knows?

Speaker 13 Kenny returned to YouTube to break the bad news to everyone who had been waiting for an update. Even though Kenny was disappointed, he was still determined to find the M Cave.

Speaker 13 He knew it was out there somewhere. He just needed more time in the desert to find it.

Speaker 26 I'm going again this weekend. I'll be hiking solo for three days.
I plan on covering about 40 miles. There are many caves.
I have been in hundreds of them.

Speaker 26 The M Cave is the only cave I ever feared going inside. I really want to find it again.

Speaker 13 By now, the M Cave wasn't just Kenny's obsession. Thousands of people were following the story.
Everybody in the comments encouraged Kenny to go back out and find it. Well, not everybody.

Speaker 27 No, do not go back there. If you find that cave entrance, don't go in.
If you do, you won't get out.

Speaker 13 That was a strange and ominous comment. Kenny even replied asking, what makes you say that? But Kenny didn't receive a reply, just more encouragement to return to the desert.

Speaker 13 So on November 10th, 2014, Kenny Veech packed enough supplies for a three-day hike and once again ventured out into the Mojave Desert.

Speaker 13 But whether he found the M cave or not, we'll never know, because Kenny Vech was never seen again.

Speaker 13 When Kenny Vech didn't return from his three-day solo hike into the Mojave Desert, his girlfriend Sharon knew something was wrong.

Speaker 13 She reported him missing on November 14th, and search and rescue teams immediately began combing the area. Kenny's car was easily found, so at least least searchers knew where to start.

Speaker 13 Kenny had left clues about his intended destination in the videos and comments he posted online. He pointed to and named specific mountains and valleys.

Speaker 18 And I head off in that direction. I just go that direction and that's west, heading towards that's Mount Charleston, that big mountain out there, that's the Mount Charleston range.

Speaker 13 Searchers were able to approximate the region Kenny would have been exploring when searching for the M cave. Helicopters scanned the desert from the air.

Speaker 13 On the ground, a large team searched canyons and cliffs where Kenny might have fallen. Nothing.

Speaker 13 Not just no trace of Kenny, but no trace of a campsite or anything that would indicate anybody was out there. A major break came on November 22nd, but it was almost too obvious.

Speaker 13 In Kenny's video, he spends a lot of time in front of an old mine shaft.

Speaker 33 I'm going to take the camera and show you how deep this hole is and kind of show you around real quick.

Speaker 29 This is kind of iffy. I'm going to step on this thing.

Speaker 33 It's very old, but I'll just show you down inside that hole.

Speaker 33 That goes way down in there.

Speaker 18 If you fell, that'd be it.

Speaker 33 You'd be a goner.

Speaker 13 When searchers got to the mine shaft, they found Kenny's cell phone. It wasn't damaged.
It wasn't even scratched. It had plenty of battery left.
It's like the phone was just placed there.

Speaker 13 If Kenny had fallen in that mine shaft, he could have easily been killed. But cameras were sent down and there was no sign of him.

Speaker 13 Search and rescue now focused their attention on the area around the mineshaft. Even doing a grid search inch by inch, there was nothing.
Search dogs were brought in. They couldn't pick up his scent.

Speaker 13 He wasn't bitten by a snake, there would be signs of that. He wasn't attacked by animals, there would be signs of that too.
There would be blood, clothes, human remains, but there was nothing.

Speaker 13 There wasn't a drop of blood anywhere, not for miles. It's like Kenny Vech just vanished into thin air.

Speaker 13 But people following the story online thought the search parties were looking in the wrong place. They believe Kenny stumbled somewhere he didn't belong.

Speaker 29 On the other side of these mountains, I'll show you in a second are the bombing range, the Nellis Air Force bombing range.

Speaker 13 Do you know what else is on the Nellis Air Force bombing range?

Speaker 13 Area 51.

Speaker 13 The United States government owns most of the land in Nevada. In fact, it owns over 80% of the entire state.

Speaker 21 And corporations own 100% of the politicians.

Speaker 13 Look at this map. Only the areas in white are privately owned.
The government owns the rest. So Kenny Veach was hiking and disappeared on government land.

Speaker 13 If we look at Kenny's last known location, it's not that far from Area 51.

Speaker 13 Now, it's fair to say that it's still really far to go on foot in the desert, but the government government doesn't just guard Area 51.

Speaker 13 They guard all the land around it, and they will not let you get close.

Speaker 13 If you try, you'll start seeing black helicopters. Try to get closer, the infamous white pickup trucks will appear.

Speaker 13 The white trucks will watch and wait and make sure that you don't cross into a restricted area. They're watching us up there.

Speaker 13 See them up there?

Speaker 30 Yeah.

Speaker 13 Now normally just the sight of the white truck is enough to scare people off, but once in a while someone pushes their luck.

Speaker 35 Years are still off. Whoa.

Speaker 35 Whoa.

Speaker 21 Um, that does not look like friendly park range is checking to see if they need help.

Speaker 13 No, it does not.

Speaker 13 These two bikers wanted to see what would happen if they crossed the line by just a few inches

Speaker 13 you couldn't even count to two mississippi until the guns were out then the bikers retreated to a very aggressive pat down and here's something interesting who are these guys army those look like u.s army combat jackets but there's no branch tape You'd expect to see U.S.

Speaker 13 Army or U.S. Air Force on their left chest.
Are they military police? There's no unit insignia or unit patch. They don't have any rank insignia either.

Speaker 13 They don't even have the American flag on their jackets. And most amazing of all, they don't wear name tapes either.
Who were they? They could be anybody. These guys are ghosts.

Speaker 13 In this case, the bikers were lucky and allowed to leave. But that was a tense situation that looked like it could go sideways very easily.

Speaker 13 Some have speculated that Kenny Vech might have wandered a little too close to a restricted area. So the search was back on.

Speaker 13 But this time it wasn't the Nevada Red Rock search and rescue team doing the searching.

Speaker 13 Hikers, survivalists, and investigators started retracing Kenny's steps, looking for clues that might lead them to the M cave or to Kenny.

Speaker 13 But to do that, they'd have to cross into some dangerous territory. Then, about two years ago, one YouTuber got a tip from a friend in the military.

Speaker 13 His friend said he knew the location, but it was on restricted land. This YouTuber took a huge risk going after the mysterious M cave,

Speaker 13 but he found it.

Speaker 13 When Kenny Vech went missing without a trace, the internet exploded with theories. Did Kenny run into mobsters or drug dealers and became a witness to something nefarious?

Speaker 13 Or maybe he found a cave to seek shelter, only to discover it was already occupied. There are a few people living off-grid in the desert, and those people want to be be left alone.

Speaker 13 But Kenny was armed. Even if he did run into the wrong people, there would have been evidence of a struggle.
If shots were fired, there would be brass, but there was nothing.

Speaker 13 The theories kept pointing to Kenny accidentally wandering too close to a military operation. His last known location was in between Nellis Air Force Base and Edwards, home of Area 51.

Speaker 13 And it's rumored that there are many underground entrances to these bases all over the desert. If Kenny stumbled upon one of of those entrances, he might have gotten himself deleted.

Speaker 13 A couple of years ago, a YouTuber with the handle Abandoned Mines 11 set out to find the M Cave, and he wouldn't start at the mineshaft. He went right toward Area 51.

Speaker 13 After a long hike and following the tip he got from a friend in the military, he believed he found the M Cave. The first thing that looks out of place is the stacked rocks.

Speaker 13 Clearly someone piled those, but why? There's a bottle and some old pieces of wood strewn about, so somebody was definitely here at some point.

Speaker 13 People have speculated that some caves around the base have doors or hatches. There's no sign of that, but there are some strange scratch marks on one of the cave walls.

Speaker 13 We get a nice reverse angle that shows the entrance really is shaped like an M, and it's the right height. Kenny said it was less than six feet high.

Speaker 13 When I watched this video for the first time, it was interesting enough, but it didn't feel like the right cave. But then an old piece of metal is seen poking out from the rubble

Speaker 3 okay area 51

Speaker 3 restricted area no no trespassing

Speaker 3 use of deadly force authorized

Speaker 13 well

Speaker 13 i think it's time for me to get out of here Over the course of a year, that video got so many views that Abandoned Mines 11 decided to go back and film an update. But he couldn't.

Speaker 3 So some new developments here at the M Cave.

Speaker 1 It looks like they've installed a

Speaker 3 restricted area sign right there.

Speaker 13 The cave itself was now a restricted area. Some people online pointed out that this couldn't be the cave.

Speaker 13 The M Cave was becoming so well known and so many people were searching for it that if it existed, the government would cover it up. They'd wall it off or fill it in.

Speaker 13 They wouldn't leave the cave open. That's true, but a walled-off cave with an M-shaped entrance? M-Cave hunters didn't see that as a deterrent.
They saw it as another clue.

Speaker 13 And that clue led to another M-cave.

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Speaker 13 Almost as soon as Kenny Veech went missing, Sean Horlacher went searching. In the description, you'll find links to his channel and all the others that I've mentioned today.

Speaker 13 Over four years, Sean went on multiple hikes, sometimes overnight, and covered about 75 miles of desert. He used Kenny's videos for reference and retraced his tracks.
Sean parks where Kenny parked.

Speaker 13 He walks through the same rugged canyon that Kenny walked. He keeps the mine shaft in sight as a point of reference.
Sean follows the same path that Kenny took.

Speaker 13 He points out various rock formations that are clearly natural, but then he comes to a rock formation that looks very out of place.

Speaker 13 It's not an M-shaped cave, it's an M-shaped opening filled in with a different kind of rock. Sean finds holes that indicate there's something behind the rock.

Speaker 13 He finds a seam that looks too straight, too perfect.

Speaker 68 You have this seam that's running.

Speaker 34 It's almost like this is

Speaker 13 like a foundation almost. He feels that some of the rocks are loose.

Speaker 34 But that moves, which means

Speaker 13 this one

Speaker 36 right here will move too.

Speaker 13 I can feel it.

Speaker 34 I can nudge it.

Speaker 13 Sean's pretty confident that he's found the M Cave.

Speaker 34 So for the record, the M Cave did exist.

Speaker 34 I think.

Speaker 13 Now that looks like a pretty good candidate to me. It's not as perfect of an M as I was hoping for, but there's definitely something strange going on with those rocks.

Speaker 13 If you watch Sean's full video, you'll see him poking around and getting some really close-up shots of the rocks. But we're still missing a piece of this mystery.

Speaker 13 Remember how Kenny said that he felt uneasy near the cave? And the closer he got, the worse he felt? He described it as a vibration that was making his body literally shake.

Speaker 13 Kenny described feeling fear that grew worse as he got closer to the cave. But Sean didn't seem afraid.
He wasn't experiencing any effects from being near the cave at all. He seemed fine.

Speaker 13 But a few minutes later...

Speaker 13 Sean was hit with a wave of nausea. He couldn't explain it.
It came out of nowhere. He tried to breathe through it, but...

Speaker 13 That cave really doesn't want people near it. Get too close and.

Speaker 13 For about four straight minutes, Sean was vomiting and dry heaving. The further he got away from the cave, the better he felt.
Please.

Speaker 21 Please don't, don't.

Speaker 21 Don't, don't show it again. Don't show it again.

Speaker 13 I can't. I can't.
I won't. I won't show anymore.
Thank you.

Speaker 21 Oof.

Speaker 21 I shouldn't have had those burritos for lunch. Yeah, now they're not sitting so well.

Speaker 13 Oops. Pardon me.
So Sean getting sick is another clue. There's a piece of military tech called an active denial system or ADS.
It's basically a heat ray.

Speaker 13 ADS emits high-frequency radiation that penetrates a fraction of an inch into the skin and heats it. It's similar to how a microwave heats food.

Speaker 13 But there is a way to protect yourself from an ADS attack. How?

Speaker 13 Aluminum cooking foil. A tin foil hat is a heat-ray helmet.
Yep.

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Speaker 13 Another piece of military tech that could have been used on Kenny and Sean is an infrasound weapon. The audio frequencies that can be heard by the human ear range from 20 hertz to 20,000 hertz.

Speaker 13 Anything above 2,000 hertz is considered treble. Anything below 200 hertz is considered base.

Speaker 13 Treble, about that bass.

Speaker 21 No treble.

Speaker 13 If the human body is exposed to frequencies lower than 20 hertz at high decibel levels, bad things happen.

Speaker 13 It can cause nausea, disorientation, vomiting, internal organ damage, or even loss of bowel control.

Speaker 13 Right. The brown note is a hypothetical frequency that supposedly causes someone's organs to resonate, leading to involuntary defecation.
Mythbusters even tested this on Adam.

Speaker 13 He said he was uncomfortable, but fortunately he was able to maintain control of his bowels.

Speaker 13 Agreed.

Speaker 13 In 2016, people at the American embassy in Cuba started becoming violently ill with no apparent cause. Low-frequency weapons were suspected.
This illness became known as Havana syndrome.

Speaker 13 The Cuban government denied this, of course, but as soon as the U.S. started investigating, the illnesses stopped.

Speaker 13 There are even stranger theories about what could have happened to Kenny. Some people say he stepped into a portal to another dimension, where Kenny came in contact with a race of aliens.
Former U.S.

Speaker 13 Airman Charles James Hall worked at various bases in Nevada in the 60s. He claimed to have had contact with aliens who flew a tic-tac-shaped spacecraft.
These aliens were called the Tall Whites.

Speaker 21 The Tall Whites? That sounds like the name of a losing basketball team.

Speaker 21 What?

Speaker 13 Paul says the U.S. government has agreements with the Tall Whites and many other alien races, and these aliens have underground bases all over the desert.

Speaker 13 We covered the Dulce base in another episode, but the story about the Tall Whites is a good one too, so let me know if you want me me to cover it. Yes, please.

Speaker 13 But there is another very interesting theory about Kenny Vech, that he's not captured or missing or dead, that he's very much alive. And there's camera footage to prove it.

Speaker 13 In 2013, after 17 years working as a service tech for a coffee company, Kenny Veech quit. He wanted to follow his passions and live life on his own terms.

Speaker 13 Kenny dedicated his time to creative pursuits like art and inventing. He even designed a product and a shark tank pitch.

Speaker 28 You just pull that, put the other one in, and let go.

Speaker 13 And right now it's not precise because I use hand tools, but you get the picture.

Speaker 18 It works perfect and it's beautiful.

Speaker 29 And that's it right there.

Speaker 32 That's the new improved toilet picker rule.

Speaker 13 They passed on that one. He also invented a glowler bear.

Speaker 69 That's the glowler bear.

Speaker 69 I designed the can and put all the stuff on it. Now there is a glow-in-the-dark polar bear in here that I sew myself and he is so cool and I've seen nothing like it on the markets.

Speaker 69 This has all the information about polar bears and the troll they're in.

Speaker 70 So this is a great idea, but you get to see this when you get to see me.

Speaker 13 These ideas never got off the ground. He tried to stay positive, but without a steady paycheck, he was burning through all of his savings.

Speaker 32 The redneck whistle. Now I designed this, not on a computer.
These are stamps that I made myself. And let me tell you something.
When you whistle into it, this thing, watch this

Speaker 13 woo so loud so cool this is what it looks like by late 2014 Kenny was almost broke his house was on the verge of foreclosure in a last-ditch effort he tried to sell his house in an unconventional way offering himself as a live-in caretaker to potential buyers and I'm selling myself with the home what I mean by that is I would become a caretaker,

Speaker 31 an all-around caretaker.

Speaker 31 Kind of like Alice from the Brady Bunch. She took care of all those kids' needs, along with the cooking and the cleaning and all the things that she did.

Speaker 25 The only thing I wouldn't do is wear the blue dress.

Speaker 13 With Kenny out of money and losing his home, some people, including some of his family, thought he might have faked his own death, that he went off grid for a while and came back with a new identity.

Speaker 13 Not many people took this theory seriously, but in 2018, something bizarre happened. Kenny's sister-in-law Debbie owns a business in Las Vegas called the Enchanted Forest Riki Center.

Speaker 13 It's a type of shop where you buy crystals, candles, incense, that kind of stuff. In 2018, someone broke into the shop.
It's all on camera. And the guy who broke in, it looks like Kenny.

Speaker 13 It was a strange break-in. The only thing he stole was an iPad on his way out the door.
Kenny's mother, Susan, is convinced it's him. Is it Kenny? It's really hard to tell.
Kenny's mother says it is.

Speaker 13 Kenny's daughter Victoria says it might be. Debbie and most other people, including the police, don't think it's him.

Speaker 13 But most of Kenny's family think that it's possible Kenny is still out there somewhere. That the financial stress was becoming too much.
The failure of his inventions was demoralizing.

Speaker 13 So he packed up some gear and headed out to the Mojave Desert and from there started a new life. They believe he intentionally left his cell phone by the mineshaft so he couldn't be tracked.

Speaker 13 The people posting on Kenny's and other YouTube channels didn't buy it. Kenny was such a positive guy, he wouldn't just leave.
He has a daughter, he had people in his life that loved him.

Speaker 13 M Cave fans just wouldn't accept that Kenny would intentionally disappear. They believed he went out in search of the M Cave just like he said he would.

Speaker 13 But as the investigation into Kenny Beach continued, followers of the story got some grim news. When Kenny left for the desert that morning, he didn't take his camera with him,

Speaker 13 but he did take his gun.

Speaker 13 The mystery of Kenny Beach and the M Cave is one of the most requested topics on this channel. Kenny disappeared almost 10 years ago, but the story still fascinates people, including me.

Speaker 13 The story has everything. The lure of the unknown, the M Cave.
There is an element of danger, the extreme conditions of the desert that put Kenny and anyone who followed him in constant risk.

Speaker 13 But how much of this mystery is true? Are there things that we can debunk? Well, there are, but there still are a lot of questions. That's another reason the story endures.
There's no closure.

Speaker 13 There's no resolution. Until we get answers, this mystery will continue to captivate.
So what do we know? Were any of the caves we looked at today the M cave? Well, there's no way to tell.

Speaker 13 The people who discovered those caves say yes. They followed Kenny's directions to the letter.
But even Kenny contradicts himself a little.

Speaker 29 And it's about as tall as I am and kind of narrow.

Speaker 28 And it's stuck on the side of a mountain.

Speaker 31 And it's about

Speaker 18 level with the ground, like right, like in an area like this.

Speaker 13 So is the end cave stuck on the side of a mountain or is it on ground level? If it's ground level, Kenny walked right past it and didn't notice. Look at this shot from Kenny's video.

Speaker 13 Now this shot from Sean's video.

Speaker 13 That's the same rock formation. If that's the end cave, even if it was covered up, wouldn't Kenny have noticed it? I would think so, but maybe not.

Speaker 13 He's not experiencing any vibrations or the effects he described earlier, so maybe he just didn't notice. Sean found the cave in 2018.
Kenny was there in 2014 and possibly earlier.

Speaker 13 If that cave was intentionally covered, by the time Sean got there, it had been covered for years.

Speaker 13 Also, if there was technology near the cave that was making Sean sick, that tech wasn't operating when Kenny walked by. He stopped for a bit right in front of that rock formation.

Speaker 13 He didn't mention feeling anything. As for the break-in video, Kenny's mom says it's him, but it isn't.
That footage has been run through facial recognition software. It's been examined by experts.

Speaker 13 That's not Kenny. Kenny's girlfriend Sharon tries to offer some closure, but it's not good news.

Speaker 13 Kenny had struggled with depression for many years, but he didn't want to talk to a therapist or try medication. He told Sharon that depression is like losing an arm.
You just get used to it.

Speaker 13 In the months leading up to his disappearance, Sharon noticed that Kenny was getting more withdrawn and seemed sad. Understandable considering his financial struggles and failing businesses.

Speaker 13 Eventually, Kenny told Sharon that his father had taken his own life, and he never really healed from it.

Speaker 13 When police searched Kenny's computer, they discovered he was reading a lot of dark topics about how to hurt himself. They also found an eerie and sad document.

Speaker 13 Kenny had written, help me, over and over and over again.

Speaker 13 Sharon believes Kenny went out into the desert with no intention of returning. She believes he left his cell phone so he couldn't be tracked.

Speaker 13 He then found a cave in a remote part of the desert and never came out.

Speaker 13 If that's true, it's such a sad ending to one of the best modern mysteries. But other people in Kenny's family, especially his daughter Victoria, resist the theory.

Speaker 13 Kenny had such a vibrant, adventurous spirit. To take his own life would be extremely out of character.

Speaker 13 Also, even though Kenny had burned through most of his savings on his inventions, he wasn't in a lot of debt. He was intelligent, personable, and had a wide variety of skills.

Speaker 13 It would have been easy for Kenny to find work if he wanted to, but Sharon said he never wanted to work for anyone again. And Kenny also had a support structure.

Speaker 13 His mother, his brother, his daughter, and Sharon, they were all there for Kenny. He never had to be alone if he didn't want to be.
But depression can be crippling. I have my own bouts with it.

Speaker 13 Nowhere near as severe as Kenny, but I've had days where it was almost impossible to get out of bed. So I understand why Kenny kept this to himself.
It's embarrassing.

Speaker 13 He was fearless in the wilderness, but there was a part of his personality that was helpless. I'm embarrassed revealing my own struggles with depression.

Speaker 13 I wrote this part of the script five times and deleted it four times. But I'm keeping it in because if you're struggling, I want you to know that you're not alone.

Speaker 13 One in five people report depression symptoms at some point in their lives, and that number is going up. This is why the story of Kenny Veech endures.

Speaker 13 Yes, it has the mystery, the danger, and all the conspiracies, but at its core, the story of Kenny Vech is a story about a man who lived a simple life but wanted something more. He tried and failed.

Speaker 13 Then he tried again and failed again. And every time he reached out, life beat him back.
He lost everything and tried again. I can relate to this, can't you?

Speaker 13 The story of Kenny Veach is the story of all of us. Sometimes life feels like an endless string of failures and disappointments, but you have to keep trying.

Speaker 13 There's that old saying, when you're going through hell, keep going. And there are people out in the desert right now searching for Kenny.
They go out every day and every day they fail.

Speaker 13 But they wake up the next morning and they go out and they try again. I have a ton of respect for these people.
They don't care about the M Cave. They care about Kenny.

Speaker 13 And they believe, like I do, it's time for Kenny to come home.

Speaker 13 Now, what I love about that story is people are still out there looking for Kenny. Every day they go out hiking his trails, looking for him.
And I think that's...

Speaker 13 Did you start already?

Speaker 21 I'm being pursued by a three-letter agency.

Speaker 13 CIA, no, FBI, no,

Speaker 13 NSA, no, DHS, no, AARP, uh, that's four letters, and they're three letters, four letters.

Speaker 21 What does it matter? They're trying to lure me into some experiment at Denny's.

Speaker 13 Denny's?

Speaker 21 It's a popular American restaurant chain with over 1700 location station wireless.

Speaker 13 I know what Denny's is.

Speaker 21 You're offering me free coffee refills and 20% off any grand slam breakfast.

Speaker 21 This is another MK Ultra.

Speaker 20 I know it.

Speaker 21 I bet the CIA puts LSD in the JOE.

Speaker 13 No, I'm sure they don't.

Speaker 21 Well, 20% off Denny's isn't gonna work on me.

Speaker 13 I wouldn't eat there for free. It's just a membership offer.
You are of a certain age, you know.

Speaker 21 How dare you, sir? I'm still in my prime.

Speaker 13 Yeah, that Botox isn't fooling anyone.

Speaker 21 I get that for my migraines. Anyway, no time for shit.
I'm having the Beager brothers build me a panic room.

Speaker 13 Whoa, hold on, hold on. Where are you going to build that?

Speaker 21 In your wife's closet.

Speaker 13 No, you gotta.

Speaker 13 Sorry about that. That bit sounded a little punchier on paper.
Anyway, I cover a lot of scary stories on the channel. So people ask me what scares me the most.

Speaker 13 And it's not nuclear war. it's not pandemic, it's not AI.

Speaker 13 What scares me the most is a solar event.

Speaker 13 Now, on this channel, the flood at the end of the Yongadryas comes up a lot. That's where the polar ice caps melted and raised the sea level by a couple hundred feet.

Speaker 13 We're talking tsunamis a thousand feet high moving at the speed of sound. So dramatic.
The thing is, nobody really knows what caused that. The prevailing theory is that it was an impact.

Speaker 13 A big asteroid hit somewhere in North America, specifically Greenland, and that's what

Speaker 13 caused the ice sheets to melt. The thing is,

Speaker 13 there's no impact crater. Now, in the soil samples taken around that time, there is evidence of meteor activity, but it's not extreme.
And there's no impact crater.

Speaker 13 When we look at the impact that killed the dinosaurs, that was, let me try and say it, Chik Shalub. That impact was 65 million years ago and happened in the ocean, and we still see the crater.

Speaker 13 Younger Dryas is just 13,000 years ago. So if there's an impact, we should see a crater.
We don't. So there are some people that believe that the ice sheets melted because of a massive solar event.

Speaker 13 And that's what scares me.

Speaker 13 We should all pay attention to solar weather. I don't know why more people don't.
Maybe because once you start paying paying attention to it, it becomes kind of scary.

Speaker 13 So next episode is number 55, and it's about solar storms. Specifically about the Carrington...

Speaker 13 So hard to say, Carrington event. Happened about 100 years ago, 150 years ago.

Speaker 13 If something like that happened now,

Speaker 13 it would be...

Speaker 13 could be the end of civilization.

Speaker 13 And I'm about to describe how it happens.

Speaker 13 On September 1st, 1859, a gold miner in Denver started his morning routine. He felt unusually tired, but shrugged it off as he prepared his coffee.

Speaker 13 He was used to waking up at sunrise, but noticed the sky was much brighter and redder than usual. Maybe a nearby fire, he wasn't sure.

Speaker 13 A few minutes later, his wife came downstairs and asked why he was up so early. Confused, he looked at the clock on the wall.
It was 1 a.m.

Speaker 13 At the very same moment, the ship Southern Cross was sailing off the coast of South America when suddenly the seas turned violent. Waves lashed at the hull and hail pounded the deck.

Speaker 13 The water, reflecting the red sky above, seemed to turn to an ocean of blood. And that morning, an astronomer turned his telescope toward the sun and noticed something strange.

Speaker 13 What happened next was terrifying. Let's find out why.

Speaker 13 On September 1st, astronomer astronomer Richard Carrington was studying the sun when he noticed something unusual.

Speaker 13 At about 11 a.m., he was observing a huge sunspot, about 10 times the size of the Earth. Then suddenly a flash of intense white light burst out of the spot.

Speaker 13 What Carrington didn't realize was he had become the first eyewitness of a major coronal mass ejection, or CME, and it was headed straight for Earth.

Speaker 13 17 hours later, the night sky in North America lit up like the day. Aurora Borealis, typically seen near the North Pole, were visible in Miami and Cuba and as far south as Colombia.

Speaker 13 In the southern hemisphere, Aurora Australis were visible north of Brisbane. A few hours later, on September 2nd, the most powerful solar storm ever recorded crashed into the Earth's atmosphere.

Speaker 13 Our magnetic field was immediately overpowered and created chaos around the world. Telegraph lines were shorting out in Europe and North America.

Speaker 13 Equipment was throwing sparks and some burst into flames. Telegraph operators were burned or jolted with electric shocks.

Speaker 13 The word went out to telegraph operators to shut down the equipment and they did, but even disconnected from their power supplies, everything still worked.

Speaker 13 In fact, telegraphs were more powerful than ever. Nobody had ever seen anything like this before.
This became known as the Carrington event.

Speaker 13 And at the time, scientists thought this was a unique phenomenon. Well, was it unique? Nope.
It's happened before, it's happened since, and it will happen again.

Speaker 13 And when it does, it could be the worst natural disaster in human history.

Speaker 13 In 1859, the connection between the Sun and the Earth's magnetic field wasn't well understood.

Speaker 13 But at the same time Carrington saw the eruption, the Kew Observatory in London reported a large magnetic disturbance in the ionosphere.

Speaker 13 This allowed scientists to correctly link geomagnetic storms with solar activity like flares, solar wind, and coronal mass ejections.

Speaker 13 The sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, is structured by strong magnetic fields. Sometimes these fields become twisted, slowly building up energy like winding a spring.

Speaker 13 When these magnetic fields finally realign, that energy is released, which causes a solar flare or an ejection.

Speaker 13 Well, flares and CMEs can happen at the same time, but they aren't the same thing. A solar flare is basically a flash of light.
They're relatively small and take place in the lower solar atmosphere.

Speaker 13 CMEs, on the other hand, are huge, sometimes bigger than the Sun itself. A CME launches billions of tons of superheated plasma into space at several million miles per hour.

Speaker 13 CMEs happen all over the Sun's surface, and most of the time they drift harmlessly into space. But sometimes CMEs come our way.
Small ones, we don't notice. On the ground, we're fine.

Speaker 13 Our atmosphere absorbs the cosmic radiation, and our magnetic field deflects the sun's plasma into the poles, which fall through the atmosphere, causing auroras.

Speaker 13 But just like the Earth's weather can vary from gentle to extreme, so does the weather on the sun. On average, CMEs happen two or three times a day.

Speaker 13 But once or twice twice every hundred years, the sun creates superstorms that hit the earth. And when they do, the effects can range from inconvenient to catastrophic.

Speaker 13 There's evidence of solar superstorms going back a long time. Ice core samples show powerful solar storms hit the Earth several times between 7,000 and 5,000 BC.

Speaker 13 In 774 AD, an extreme solar storm called the Miyake event caused the largest rise in carbon-14 levels ever recorded.

Speaker 13 In 993 AD, a storm left evidence in tree trunks that archaeologists still use to date ancient wood materials.

Speaker 13 And this is one of the ways they confirmed that the Norse arrived in North America 500 years before Columbus. 1052, 1279, more storms, more spikes in carbon.

Speaker 13 In 1582, 1730, and 1770, solar storms caused aurora to be seen all around the world, turning night into day. And there are dozens of reports like this throughout history.

Speaker 13 But in those reports, the solar storms are nothing more than oddities.

Speaker 21 Why didn't people freak out? Humans don't like change.

Speaker 13 Well, sure, they frightened some people who thought the world was ending or the gods were angry, but the storms didn't cause any damage.

Speaker 13 But when the Carrington event happened in 1859, civilization was doing something new. We started using machines and electricity to operate them.

Speaker 13 And that's where the story goes from science lesson, the Hollywood disaster movie. A solar storm can induce current in anything that conducts electricity.

Speaker 13 This can be the atmosphere, the ocean, and even certain types of rock, though conductivity is pretty low. But electrical wires? Solar storms love those.

Speaker 13 And modern civilization is absolutely covered by and dependent on millions of miles of wires that cover the Earth.

Speaker 13 A large enough solar storm can overload power grids, destroy transformers, and cause entire grids to fail. And this actually happened in 1989.

Speaker 13 The Earth was hit by a solar storm that disrupted radio signals across Russia.

Speaker 21 Oh, the Russians had to be annoyed.

Speaker 13 Oh, they were. At first, they thought American spies were jamming their signals.
Then they noticed their satellites were unresponsive. Several satellites were drifting for hours.

Speaker 13 The Space Shuttle Discovery suffered sensor malfunctions. The Toronto Stock Exchange went down.
And suddenly, millions of people in Quebec province were put in total blackout for nine hours.

Speaker 13 In 2003, another storm put millions of people in the U.S. and Canada in darkness for 12 hours.
And the solar storms of 1989 and 2003 were a fraction of the strength of the Carrington event.

Speaker 13 So, what would happen if we were hit with a storm as strong as or stronger than the Carrington event? I'm guessing not good.

Speaker 13 Not good at all.

Speaker 13 Picture this. You're on a family vacation driving across the country to see

Speaker 13 biggest ball of twine in Minnesota. Fine.
Minnesota.

Speaker 13 Minnesota. What?

Speaker 21 Might be Whitel's best song.

Speaker 13 Anyway, you've got the radio on, but it starts to get staticky. This is how it begins.
In the ionosphere, shortwave radio has become overwhelmed with electromagnetic interference.

Speaker 13 Signals aren't getting through. No VHF, no UHF.

Speaker 21 UHF might be Wheat El's best movie.

Speaker 13 You're a little obsessed.

Speaker 21 Yeah, I'm obsessed.

Speaker 13 Ship-to-shore communication is disrupted. Planes using VLF signals are knocked off course.
Air traffic control goes dark and planes go blind.

Speaker 13 Now it's a good thing you're on a driving vacation because airline passengers flying high in the atmosphere just received over a year's dose of radiation in an instant.

Speaker 13 Astronauts in space receive an even higher dose. Chances of developing cancer increase tenfold as the radiation has already begun unwinding strands of their DNA.

Speaker 13 This was just the initial burst called the precursor stage. These high energy particles move at the speed of light so there's not much warning.
But a coronal mass ejection moves a little more slowly.

Speaker 13 It hasn't hit yet. The worst is yet to come.
Solar radiation continues to pummel the Earth. The atmosphere is saturated by high energy particles.

Speaker 13 The Earth's magnetic field stretches as the plasma tries to strip it away. You look at your dashboard.
Your GPS is acting weird. It can't orient itself.
Then it loses signal altogether.

Speaker 13 But this is happening to every GPS system everywhere around the world. As radiation tears through thousands of satellites in orbit, shorting out their circuits and frying their electronics.

Speaker 13 This is more than just an inconvenient glitch affecting your vacation. Global supply chains begin to fail, and within hours, they will crumble completely.

Speaker 13 Military communication, which relies on microwaves, fails. Radar is disrupted.
Weapon systems become useless. And then it gets worse.

Speaker 13 By now, a few hours into the event, governments are aware of what's happening, but there's no way to communicate with the citizens. All telecommunications, including emergency services, go offline.

Speaker 13 Back in your car, you're on a call with a friend describing what's happening.

Speaker 13 Your friend also reports weird technical issues and mentions the stock market just went offline, but you're having trouble hearing them. Your phone keeps losing the call.

Speaker 13 And as people around the world all experience these strange events simultaneously, they saturate cell towers. But it doesn't matter.
Nobody's phone can get a signal. Not even satellite phones work.

Speaker 13 After an hour or so, you start to get concerned and decide to pull off the highway. Maybe this is a good time to fill up your tank, grab lunch, and try to figure out what's happening.

Speaker 13 When you pull into the gas station, the line is already a quarter mile long. Gas pumps aren't working.
There's chaos because credit cards won't work. ATMs are offline.

Speaker 21 Well, can I use my Bitcoin?

Speaker 13 Nope. Your crypto wallet is dark.
Hard drives around the world have been wiped clean. Bye-bye, blockchain.

Speaker 13 And during these last few hours of confusion, solar radiation has continued to build in the ionosphere. The Earth's magnetic field is stretched hundreds of thousands of miles into space.

Speaker 13 And when the last of the Sun's plasma passes through the Earth, its magnetic field suddenly snaps back like a rubber band.

Speaker 13 And all of that energy built up in the ionosphere slams into the surface at once. Then things get...
Really bad. Power stations around the world are overwhelmed.

Speaker 13 The failures cascade through every country on Earth, leaving entire continents in darkness. Power lines and transformers are set ablaze.

Speaker 13 Network cables both above the ground and deep under the ocean go down all at once. The entire internet goes dark.

Speaker 13 Now, back at the gas station, someone from your family complains that the restroom water isn't working. Turns out water isn't running anywhere.

Speaker 13 Pumping stations and water treatment centers are offline. You hear a loud crash behind you.
There's a six-car collision where a traffic light stopped working.

Speaker 13 Looking down the street, you see that no traffic lights are working anywhere. Not here, not back at home, not anywhere.
There's no power, no water, no fuel. And this is just the first few hours.

Speaker 13 From here, things get even worse. Worse! Far worse.

Speaker 13 There have been a number of studies outlining solar storm worst case scenarios and each study is scarier than the next.

Speaker 13 If the Carrington event, or worse, something stronger happened now, it would take months or even years to get back to normal.

Speaker 13 It's been estimated that some power grids could take up to 10 years to repair.

Speaker 13 You could prioritize water facilities, hospitals, and emergency services, but you'd still have millions of people without power for months. Planes would have to be grounded.

Speaker 13 Trains too would have to wait. Some cars would be okay, but not all of them.
Electric cars are great, but without charging stations, you'll miss that old gas guzzler.

Speaker 13 Still, there would be no traffic control system. Now, this might be okay in rural areas, but in a big city, it's a disaster.

Speaker 13 One study warned about how the destruction of the supply chain and lack of refrigeration would cause worldwide food riots. No heat, no air conditioning, no sewage disposal.

Speaker 13 Banking transactions require power, network access, and satellite uplink. Without these, the global financial system would be in ruins.

Speaker 13 Right now, there are over 19,000 satellites orbiting the Earth, and many of those would be adrift.

Speaker 13 Solar storms cause what's known as satellite drag, and this is where the Earth's atmosphere expands and starts tugging on low-orbiting objects.

Speaker 13 If we can't restore power to those, they would start falling back down to the Earth one by one. But a strong enough storm would burn out a satellite's circuit boards, so there's no way to save it.

Speaker 13 According to another study, a severe enough solar storm would cause a complete breakdown of society.

Speaker 13 Most governments would have to impose martial law immediately, and many governments would simply collapse. Remember those warnings of 2012?

Speaker 21 Well, yeah, the the world was supposed to end.

Speaker 13 Well, in July, it almost did.

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Speaker 13 In July 2012, the largest CMA in a century missed the Earth by nine days. That was the luckiest thing to happen to our species.
in hundreds of years.

Speaker 13 If that solar storm hit us, a quarter of the Earth's population could have been without power power for weeks. 160 million Americans would be in the dark for months.

Speaker 13 We would still be recovering from the aftermath today. Damage in the U.S.
alone would have cost trillions of dollars. And that storm happened in the middle of summer.

Speaker 13 How many thousands of people would die around the world without heat for an entire winter? Nine days.

Speaker 13 That's all that stood between us and an instant 200-year thrust backward in technology that would have changed all of our lives.

Speaker 21 We have the good news part of the video yet.

Speaker 13 Well, NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory spacecraft, called STEREO, launched in 2006, and it can spot a CME almost immediately. Oh good hoof.
But oh no.

Speaker 13 But the STEREO spacecraft can't determine the CME's magnetic field. Turns out that's a key piece of data.
If the CME's magnetic field is aligned with the Earth's, it just bounces off.

Speaker 13 Magnets repel when their poles are aligned. But you've heard the expression, opposites attract.

Speaker 13 If the magnetic fields of the CME and the Earth are not aligned, the CME strips away our protection, which means disaster.

Speaker 13 Now, the Advanced Composition Explorer sits about 900,000 miles from the Earth, and this satellite can detect the CME's magnetic field.

Speaker 13 That's it. That means we have 30 minutes for planes to be grounded, for satellites to be put into safe mode, and grids to be powered down.

Speaker 13 Everyone has to go dark, and then we just wait it out and hope for the best.

Speaker 13 Now, on average, there's a 4% chance of a severe solar storm in any given year and a 0.7% chance of a Carrington level event.

Speaker 13 But every 11 years, the sun enters a period of peak activity called a solar maximum. Then the odds get much worse.

Speaker 21 When is the next solar maximum?

Speaker 13 Well, we're currently in solar cycle 25, which began in 2019 and is expected to peak in 2025. During the solar maximum, chances of a severe solar storm go to 28%

Speaker 13 and chance of a Carrington superstorm go to 4%.

Speaker 13 Every year.

Speaker 13 Every year, a new roll of the dice. And despite the blackouts and chaos solar storms have caused in recent years, a 4% chance is just not scary enough for governments to take the necessary action.

Speaker 13 We need more resources diverted to research, more satellites, and a full overhaul of our power infrastructure. And those resources aren't coming anytime soon.

Speaker 21 Hey, didn't we just pass a big infrastructure bill? Yeah, yeah, I realized that was a stupid question as I was asking it. We can't count on the government.

Speaker 13 We absolutely cannot. Instead, we have to rely on ourselves and our local communities, just like we do before a hurricane or a tornado or an earthquake.
Make sure your family has a readiness plan.

Speaker 13 Maintain a supply of food and water. You need thermal blankets, camp stoves, propane heaters in case the heat goes out.
You need hygiene supplies, first aid kits, and a hand crank radio.

Speaker 13 Keep all these on hand all the the time, just in case.

Speaker 21 So you're saying become a prepper?

Speaker 13 Well, if that's what you want to call it, but being overprepared is better than not being prepared at all, because it's just a matter of time before the lights go out.

Speaker 13 And when they do, there is no cavalry coming. In the end, the only one looking out for you and your family is you.

Speaker 13 3 plus 15 plus 004.

Speaker 13 You can see why solar weather scares me.

Speaker 13 Next up is a controversial topic. It's episode 97 about the Georgia Guidestones.

Speaker 13 Looking at my notes, remember, this is not a professional operation. So the Guidestones.
They were six stones, granite slabs with 10 messages in

Speaker 13 eight languages or eight messages in 10 languages. It was one of those.
There were messages on them.

Speaker 13 And I'm using the past tense because a little over a year ago, someone destroyed the Georgia Guidestones. They were in the hills hills of Georgia.

Speaker 13 It's on camera. The person threw a bomb at the Guidestones and destroyed them.

Speaker 13 And what's controversial about that is to some people,

Speaker 13 the person who did this is a terrorist. To others, he's a hero.
Now, I have my own opinion on which one he is. And now you'll have to decide for yourself.

Speaker 13 On July 6th, 2022, a bomb detonated on a five-acre plot of farmland in Elberton, Georgia. The explosion destroyed a large monument that stood on the property for over 40 years.

Speaker 13 Known as the Georgia Guidestones, it was four monolithic slabs of granite weighing over 230,000 pounds that contained a set of rules for a more peaceful and orderly society.

Speaker 13 The identity of the builder was a mystery for 40 years, but today I'll tell you who he was. But why did he want to keep his identity a secret?

Speaker 13 Probably for the same reason the Georgia Guidestones were destroyed.

Speaker 13 Because, according to the guidestones, the way to a perfect society is through a one-world government, genetic and racial purity, and massive global depopulation. In other words, a new world order.

Speaker 13 In June 1979, a well-dressed man using the pseudonym Robert C. Christian approached Joe Finley, president of Elberton Granite Finishing Company.
R.C.

Speaker 13 Christian wanted to build a monument to rival the magnitude and awe of Stonehenge. R.
C.

Speaker 13 Christian had recently visited Stonehenge and was impressed, though he felt it was missing something, a message. But what kind of message? The reason R.C.

Speaker 13 Christian used that name is that he was a Christian. There is no more famous Christian message than the Ten Commandments.

Speaker 13 And religious or not, the Ten Commandments have rules that all of us should follow. Don't lie, don't steal, don't hurt anybody.
But those are rules for an individual. R.C.

Speaker 13 Christian was thinking bigger. Ooh, I'm bigger than the

Speaker 13 R.C. Christian said he represented a small group of loyal Americans who had spent the past 20 years planning an unusually large and complex monument.

Speaker 13 He brought with him a scale model with some very detailed specifications.

Speaker 13 The structure would stand 16 feet tall and consist of four stones arranged in the shape of a cross, capped with a central stone.

Speaker 13 The monument would need to display its message in the eight most spoken languages in the world, English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, and Swahili.

Speaker 13 It would also show the message in four dead languages, Babylonian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Sanskrit, and classical Greek. Joe Fenley wasn't taking any of this seriously, but when R.C.

Speaker 13 Christian began to describe the monument, Fenley stopped what he was doing.

Speaker 13 Not only was this out-of-towner asking for stones larger than any Fenley had ever quarried, they wanted them cut, polished, and arranged as an enormous astronomical instrument.

Speaker 25 The four standing stones should outline the migration of the moon over a year. A small viewing hole in the middle support stone would need to always show the North Star.

Speaker 25 A slot at the top of the middle support stone should align with a winter and summer solstice's rising sun and indicate noon at the equinoxes.

Speaker 25 A hole should be drilled through the capstone that focuses the sun on the center column at noon to indicate the day of the year.

Speaker 13 R.C. Christian had one final request that caused a few people to question the purpose of the Georgia Guidestone project.
The stone should be made to withstand the end of the world.

Speaker 13 R.C. Christian now had Joe Fenley's full attention.
Fenley's granite company mostly dealt in wholesale orders for statues, monuments, and tombstone retailers. He had never had a request like this.

Speaker 13 Fenley's first thought was, this guy's crazy. How can I get him out of here? Fenley tried to discourage the stranger by quoting him a price much higher than any job he'd ever worked on.

Speaker 13 He said the job would need heavy equipment, special tools, and expensive consultants. R.C.
Christian just nodded and asked how long. Fenley wasn't sure how long it would take.

Speaker 13 Six months, maybe more, but he wouldn't even consider the job unless he knew R.C. Christian had the money.
Christian asked if there was a trustworthy banker in town. Well, there's a problem.

Speaker 21 There's no such thing as a trustworthy banker.

Speaker 13 Well, that's a good point. But still, Fenley sent R.C.
Christian to the Granite City Bank and told him to ask for the bank president, Wyatt Martin.

Speaker 13 At the bank, Martin and Christian came to an agreement.

Speaker 13 Martin would help set up the bank account where funds could be transferred to pay for the guidestones, but the account couldn't be set up under a false name. R.C.

Speaker 13 Christian understood and agreed to give Martin his real name, but only if he promised to never tell anyone who he really was or who he represented.

Speaker 21 No, but we know, right?

Speaker 13 We do. We're getting there.

Speaker 21 You're fine, but don't take too long. The suspense is giving me agita.

Speaker 13 Wyatt Martin agreed and would be the only man to ever know R.C. Christian's true identity.
Despite being hounded for years about this, Martin kept his word to his dying day. So R.C.

Speaker 13 Christian transferred the funds, purchased five acres of land in Elbert County, Georgia, and construction finally began. And just like that, R.C.

Speaker 13 Christian was gone, and nobody would ever see him again.

Speaker 13 The five-acre plot of pasture was the highest point in Elbert County and visible from all directions, the ideal location.

Speaker 13 The Georgia Guidestones were erected and revealed to the public on March 22nd, 1980, the vernal equinox.

Speaker 21 What? It was erected.

Speaker 13 Don't be a child.

Speaker 21 Oh, so in 1980, they revealed their erection to the public?

Speaker 13 Please don't.

Speaker 13 Okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 21 You know I couldn't let that go.

Speaker 13 Go ahead, I'll behave.

Speaker 13 A few hundred people, local media, and even Elberton's congressmen came out for the unveiling. Each of the outer slabs was 16 feet high, 6 feet wide, and 19 inches thick.

Speaker 13 The capstone measured almost 10 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 19 inches thick. Including the foundation stones, the monument's total weight was almost 240,000 pounds.

Speaker 21 Wow, that is a big erection.

Speaker 21 What it is!

Speaker 13 It is, but would you stop it?

Speaker 13 Enough!

Speaker 13 Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 13 Over the years, thousands of visitors from all over the world would come to see the Georgia Guidestones. But what was so special about the stones?

Speaker 13 It was more than just an impressively large granite construction.

Speaker 13 It was the new Ten Commandments, sandblasted in four-inch high letters that R.C. Christian left to benefit humanity.

Speaker 25 Maintain humanity under 500 million in perpetual balance with nature. Guide reproduction wisely, improving fitness and diversity.
Unite humanity with a living new language.

Speaker 25 Rule passion, faith, tradition, and all things with tempered reason. Protect people and nations with fair laws and and just courts.

Speaker 25 Let all nations rule internally, resolving external disputes in a world court. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
Balance personal rights with social duties.

Speaker 25 Prize truth, beauty, love, seeking harmony with the infinite. Be not a cancer on the earth.
Leave room for nature.

Speaker 36 Leave room for nature.

Speaker 13 At first glance, some of these commandments seem fairly innocent and maybe even cliché. But when you take a closer look, the guides are unsettling.

Speaker 13 Some have claimed that the Georgia Guidestones are instructions for a new world order an open call for eugenics genocide and a one world government but we're told this is all conspiracy theory that there's no evidence to support these claims but there's evidence oh yeah plenty of it

Speaker 13 at first glance the 10 rules on the georgia guidestone sounded like a cheesy new age bumper sticker but if you read them carefully they're disturbing Let's start with the first one.

Speaker 13 Maintain humanity under 500 million in perpetual balance with nature. The current population is just under 8 billion people.

Speaker 13 To achieve the Guidestone's ideal population means that roughly 94% of people on Earth would need to be eradicated. And there are many people and think tanks that support this.

Speaker 13 On this channel, we've covered the Club of Rome that defines itself as a non-profit, informal organization of intellectuals and business leaders whose goal is a critical discussion of pressing global issues.

Speaker 13 Fine. But what the Club of Rome doesn't advertise so openly is that it was created in 1968 by the Morgenthau Group during a secret meeting at Rockefeller's private estate, Bellaggio.
Oh, here we go.

Speaker 13 In August 1980, just a few months after the Guidestones went up, Howard Odom, a member of the Club of Rome, said it's necessary that the U.S. cut its population by two-thirds within the next 50 years.

Speaker 13 He didn't mention how this should be accomplished. But there are theories.
Do I love theories? I know you do.

Speaker 33 But it does mean if you want the same standard of living, we're going to have to cut our population in the U.S., for example, certainly to one-fourth.

Speaker 33 But we have so many wasteful things, that won't be hard.

Speaker 33 You say it won't be hard to cut the population by one-fourth?

Speaker 33 It just takes one generation to get a population down if nobody bred for one generation.

Speaker 13 You've probably heard of the Bilderberg Group. It was formed in 1954 as a way to prevent another world war.
That's what they say publicly. So why are Bilderberg meetings so secret?

Speaker 13 Secrecy has created all kinds of conspiracy theories.

Speaker 21 I love theories.

Speaker 13 I know you do. One of these is that the Bilderberg Group believes that the current population growth is not sustainable.

Speaker 13 Allegedly, one way the Bilderberg Group would try to reduce human population is by causing pandemics. Oh no.

Speaker 13 The theory also says the Bilderberg Group will keep their true plan secret by consolidating all media to a handful of mega companies and then use governments to work with these media companies on censoring any ideas that go against the group's wishes.

Speaker 21 Ooh, that's not a theory, that's Well of course it's true.

Speaker 13 Just look at Twitter. Both Trump and Biden aggressively pressured Twitter into censoring any information that went against their agendas.

Speaker 13 But whether the Bilderberg group is behind this or not is unknown.

Speaker 21 Yeah, unknown only if you're a sheep.

Speaker 13 And guess who writes the foreign policy for the Bilderberg Group? The Club of Rome. The Club of Rome.

Speaker 13 Now it's been alleged that the Club of Rome supports massive depopulation using any means necessary.

Speaker 21 But didn't we fight World War II over these ideas?

Speaker 13 Well, funny you should mention that. The The founder of the Bilderberg group was Prince Bernard.
At the beginning of World War II, he was a Nazi SS officer.

Speaker 21 Of course he was.

Speaker 13 Now, to be fair, after Germany conquered France, Prince Bernard switched sides and fought for the Allies.

Speaker 21 Oh, so that makes him okay?

Speaker 13 Hey, I'm just giving both sides of his story.

Speaker 13 But many people say that all of this is nothing but conspiracy theory, that the Georgia Guidestones don't want to reduce the current population, but instead are instructions for how to rebuild society after a cataclysmic world event.

Speaker 13 Okay, let's say that's true. How should the remaining survivors maintain control of the population? And who decides? The second Guidestone Rule addresses this.

Speaker 13 Guide reproduction wisely, improving fitness and diversity. R.C.
Christian wrote a book entitled Common Sense Renewed, which he sent to each member of Congress in 1986.

Speaker 25 Among a myriad of statements, Christian wrote, It is vitally important that each national government have a considered population policy.

Speaker 25 The need is urgent and should take precedence over other problems, even those of national defense.

Speaker 13 Okay, so he wants the government in charge. So what kind of people should the government allow to have children?

Speaker 25 Responsible parenting will consider both genetic and environmental factors.

Speaker 25 We must seek to produce healthy children and then to mold their characters and to develop their potentials as socially worthwhile adults who will in turn carry the process indefinitely into the future.

Speaker 25 We have a grave duty to use all available knowledge in perfecting the forces which guide our procreation.

Speaker 25 It is within our power to leave behind us a new generation of humanity slightly superior to our own in intellectual, physical, and social capabilities.

Speaker 21 Heesh, this sounds a lot like China.

Speaker 13 Oh yeah, he's a fan of punishing people who want big families.

Speaker 25 A few generations of single child families will make possible dramatic improvements. Irresponsible childbearing must be discouraged by legal and social pressures.

Speaker 13 Allowing only worthy people to reproduce to create a generation of genetically superior children? That's called eugenics.

Speaker 21 So that's frowned upon, eh?

Speaker 13 It is. It's what the Nazis did, or tried to do.
It's also a war crime, but maybe not a crime at all in the New World Order.

Speaker 13 The Rockefeller that helped create the Club of Rome is the same guy who founded the Population Council in 1954.

Speaker 13 The Population Council supported and still supports research in birth control and early birth termination, specifically in those people with undesirable genetics. How do we know? Rockefeller said so.

Speaker 25 Modern civilization had reduced the operation of natural selection by saving more weak lives and enabling them to reproduce, resulting in a downward trend in genetic quality.

Speaker 25 An organization needed to be created that would be devoted to the reduction of fertility of weaker individuals with undesirable genetics.

Speaker 13 One of the members of the Population Council, as recently as 2020, has been accused of supporting forced sterilization. The council is still active today.

Speaker 13 It operates its programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Notice that North America and Europe are not on that list.

Speaker 13 Now, maybe it's just a coincidence, but the council is focused on countries that are primarily non-white. The Population Council takes in millions upon millions of dollars every year.

Speaker 13 And the biggest contributor? United States government.

Speaker 75 Improved public health has caused the world's infant mortality rate to decline by 60%

Speaker 75 over the last 40 years.

Speaker 75 In the same period, the world's average life expectancy has increased from 46 years in the 1950s to 63 years today.

Speaker 75 The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.

Speaker 13 Guide number one was population control. Guide number two was breeding a superior society through eugenics.
Guide numbers three and five are just as chilling.

Speaker 25 Unite humanity with a living new language. Let all nations rule internally, resolving external disputes in a world court.

Speaker 13 Uniting the world under a new single language and rectifying all disagreements in a world court? These are key to creating the new world order.

Speaker 13 And local ministers pointed out that the book of Revelations warned of a common tongue and a one-world government as the accomplishments of the Antichrist.

Speaker 13 And guide number four ruled passion, faith, tradition, and all things with tempered reason. This also upset Christians who believe in faith above all.
After all, it's the first commandment.

Speaker 13 God said, you shall have no other gods before me. God wasn't down with tempered reason.

Speaker 13 These seemingly anti-faith messages made the Georgia Guidestones a location for alleged satanic worship, witchcraft, and pagan rituals.

Speaker 13 Elberton locals have reported seeing lights near the guidestones. They've heard chanting.
They found melted candles on the capstone.

Speaker 13 Now, no humans were sacrificed there, but I can't say the same for a few chickens who had a less than amazing visit to the Georgia Guidestones.

Speaker 13 Now, other theories suggest that the stones were built on native Hopi lands, and that the Hopi have a prophecy regarding the ushering in of a new world.

Speaker 13 Other theories say that the stones are set on ley lines, along with other icons, like the Great Pyramids, Great Wall of China, and Stonehenge.

Speaker 13 And that's not even mentioning the proposed connections to the Order of the Rosy Cross, the Rosicrucians, who deserve their own episode. But the biggest mystery of all was, who funded this project?

Speaker 13 Well, it would take 35 years, but we finally have our answer.

Speaker 35 The planet

Speaker 37 can support

Speaker 37 something like a billion people.

Speaker 37 If you want more liberty and more consumption, you have to to have fewer people. And conversely, you can have more people.

Speaker 37 I mean, we could even have eight or nine billion probably if we have a very strong dictatorship, which is smart.

Speaker 37 Unfortunately, you never have smart dictatorships. They're always stupid.
But if you had a smart dictatorship and a low standard of living, you can have a...

Speaker 37 But we want to have freedom and we want to have a high sentence, so we're going to have a billion people. And we're now at seven, so we have to get back down.

Speaker 37 I hope that this can be slow, slow, relatively slow, and that it can be done in a way which is relatively equal, you know, so that people share the experience and you don't have a few rich, you know, trying to force everybody else to deal with it.

Speaker 37 So those are my hopes.

Speaker 33 I mean, these are pretty pessimistic hopes, you know, but that's...

Speaker 37 That's what lies ahead.

Speaker 13 Over the years, internet detectives have had many theories about the true identity of R.C. Christian.
Businessman and founder of CNN Ted Turner was a leading candidate.

Speaker 13 He had the money, his foundation was created to protect the environment, and he specifically said that the greatest threat to civilization is overpopulation. But Ted Turner can't be R.C.
Christian.

Speaker 13 Why not? Because Ted Turner is still alive.

Speaker 21 Oh, these Christian guys dead? Yep.

Speaker 13 Wyatt Martin, the bank owner who knew Christian's true identity, kept Christian's identity a secret. Christian and Martin exchanged letters at least twice a year until Christian's death.

Speaker 13 The letters were never sent from the same place, nor were the funds transferred from the same place twice.

Speaker 13 Martin passed away in December 2021, but he did drop some clues along the way, whether he meant to or not. Martin confirmed that Christian died after the year 2000.

Speaker 13 He mentioned that Christian had a daughter and that he was in basic training in Georgia before being deployed in World War II.

Speaker 13 Martin said that Christian was from the Midwest and at some point he worked in construction.

Speaker 21 Is that enough?

Speaker 13 Almost. What sealed the deal was something that took place in 2005, when a documentary crew was filming Dark Clouds over Elberton.

Speaker 13 White Martin had recently suffered a stroke and was in pretty bad health. The film crew pressured him to show them the letters that he received from R.C.
Christian over the years.

Speaker 13 Martin was reluctant, but eventually agreed, though he was careful to hide his postmarks on the envelopes when he was showing them the camera.

Speaker 13 But the cameraman was able to grab a close-up shot of an envelope in the box which had a return address.

Speaker 21 Kind of a dick move to take advantage of the old time, eh?

Speaker 13 I agree, but even though we mean it like the way we came about this information, it doesn't change the fact that we have it. So using this information, people on the internet did what they do best.

Speaker 21 Oh, leave nasty comments on videos about how your content sucks?

Speaker 13 No, they track down the address.

Speaker 13 The letters came from Dr. Herbert Hinsey Kirsten, a surgeon from Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Kirsten is an old German form of the name Christian.

Speaker 21 He died after 2000, like the old timers said.

Speaker 13 Kirsten died in 2005.

Speaker 21 Yahtzee!

Speaker 13 Now, according to Kirsten's obituary, he served in World War II. He was a conservationalist who loved nature and trees.

Speaker 13 He was a naturalist who was very involved in environmental and world population issues.

Speaker 21 Bingo, this is the guy.

Speaker 13 Kirsten also worked in construction when he was younger, and he had two sons and two daughters. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 21 The guy who wants to limit people to one red rat had four of them?

Speaker 13 Yep.

Speaker 21 Rules for thee, but not for me, huh? You sure this guy wasn't in Congress?

Speaker 13 Well, I'm sure, but he did have a couple of famous friends. One of them was William Shockley.
Shockley was a physicist and inventor. He actually won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956.

Speaker 13 Well, he was also known for being a racist who supported eugenics.

Speaker 13 Now, Shockley argued that less intelligent people were having too many children and reducing the average intelligence of the population.

Speaker 13 He also believed that some races were more intelligent than others. Clearly, Dr.
Kirsten, aka R.C. Christian, shared similar views.

Speaker 13 Though the Georgia Guidestones aren't specifically racist, we know that Dr. Kirsten was a supporter of David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the KKK.

Speaker 13 Well, destruction of the Guidestones is the final piece of the story. Or is it?

Speaker 13 On July 6, 2022, just after 4 a.m., CCTV picked up an individual running to the stones carrying something. Seconds later, there's an explosion and one of the four monoliths is destroyed.

Speaker 13 Less than a minute later, a car is captured on camera leaving the scene. What's strange is, within hours, heavy equipment was brought in to clean up the site.

Speaker 13 Shouldn't this have been a crime scene for longer than a few hours? ATF was on the scene almost immediately. Weren't they curious about what kind of explosive was used? What components it was made of?

Speaker 13 What kind of trigger device was employed? Modern forensics can give us all kinds of information, but all the evidence was quickly removed. The guidestones were in a remote location.

Speaker 13 There's only one road in or out. There's no footage of this vehicle once once it leaves the area.
It's the middle of the night in northern Georgia.

Speaker 13 It would be one of the only cars on the road, but we don't have any new information.

Speaker 13 Well, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying there are questions that can now never be answered because the site, along with any evidence, was cleaned up almost immediately.

Speaker 13 It's very possible this was carried out by someone who is very anti-government, or maybe someone who is just anti-hypocrisy.

Speaker 13 All these people that want us to live by the one-child policy seem to have plenty of children. Rockefeller had six kids.
William Shockley had three. R.C.
Christian, aka Dr. Kirsten, had four.

Speaker 13 But the rest of us are only allowed to have one child and only if we're genetically fit. Who decides who's genetically fit? Well, they do.

Speaker 13 They want to limit the population of the Earth without acknowledging that it was the rapid growth and advancement of the human race that allowed them to amass ridiculous wealth.

Speaker 13 Now that they have theirs, they want to limit what we can have. These same people are the ones who scream about climate change, fossil fuels, pollution.

Speaker 13 They want to decide who could own what kinds of vehicles and how much energy you can use to warm your house in the winter. But how did J.D.
Rockefeller make his money? Oil.

Speaker 13 Aurelio Pache, who founded the Club of Rome, he made his fortune working for Fiat, a huge company that makes cars, trains, planes, tractors, and military equipment.

Speaker 13 When they were making their families rich and powerful, the climate wasn't as big a concern, but now it is.

Speaker 13 All the problems facing our planet can be solved like they've always been solved through our collective innovation and cooperation. All of us.
But the elites don't want cooperation. They want control.

Speaker 13 They don't see any problem with this. They have superior genetics.
They don't believe we're intelligent enough to make these decisions for ourselves, so they'll make those decisions for us.

Speaker 13 It's very possible, and maybe even likely, that whoever destroyed the Georgia Guidestones was aware of this hypocrisy. Now look, I don't condone the destruction of property.

Speaker 13 I know why some monuments and statues are offensive to people, but those people don't have the right to just decide on their own to tear them down.

Speaker 13 People should vote on what statues go up and what monuments come down. Anything else is vandalism and vigilanteism.

Speaker 13 I don't like the fact that someone took the law into their own hands and destroyed the Georgia Guidestones. Now, I hope he's found and sent to prison for what he's done.

Speaker 13 But now that they're gone, I say good riddance.

Speaker 13 So, what do you think? Terrorist, Hero? Terrorist?

Speaker 13 Hero! Hero!

Speaker 21 That was a monument to the New World Order.

Speaker 13 Well, that's one of the theories, and there's plenty of evidence to support that.

Speaker 13 What is that racket?

Speaker 21 Hey, hey, hey, can you boys take a break? I'm doing my shelfish thing over here. Sorry, sir.
The panic room is really coming along.

Speaker 13 I told you to stay out of my wife's closet.

Speaker 21 You were serious? I thought you were kidding.

Speaker 13 No, I wasn't kidding.

Speaker 13 Where did you put all her stuff?

Speaker 21 Relax. There's plenty of room in the bunker.

Speaker 13 We don't have a bunker.

Speaker 21 Not yet, we don't. The bunker is phase two.

Speaker 13 Whoa,

Speaker 13 you can't build that under my house.

Speaker 21 I know that, you moron. The beavers got the tunnel bug, but they hit a water pipe, so we gotta pump out the water.

Speaker 21 Thank goodness your wife has all these life vests in here.

Speaker 13 Uh, she doesn't have any life vests in there.

Speaker 21 Ah, sure, she does. They're puffy letter things.
They all say LV all over them.

Speaker 13 Uh, they're very buoyant. Those are not life vests.
She is gonna kill me.

Speaker 21 All right, let me go. The boy's got to break through the cement foundation, so I got to keep them moving.
When your bee is in the mood for a jackhammer, you got to take advantage.

Speaker 13 Well, next up is episode 113, Crop Circles. This one was highly requested, and I refused to do it for like a year because I was convinced that crop circles were just made by guys with boards and rope.

Speaker 13 That...

Speaker 13 There was nothing more to it than that. It's too obvious.

Speaker 13 But so many people wanted my take on it.

Speaker 13 so i started doing research and i went from skeptic to believer i'm convinced that 99.9 of crop circles are fake but there's 0.1 percent that can't be debunked they're scientifically proven to be something very very strange this is a long episode but it's a fun one so settle in

Speaker 13 In 1974, a group of scientists beamed a message into space. The message, meant to be received by an intelligent alien species, described life on Earth.

Speaker 13 Written in simple binary code and using the most powerful radio telescope on the planet, the message was broadcast to a dense cluster of stars in the constellation of Hercules.

Speaker 13 This exercise was just ceremonial, a way to demonstrate new technology in radio astronomy. Nobody was really expected to receive it.
And even if they did, it wouldn't be anytime soon.

Speaker 13 The nearest star in the direction of the broadcast is 25,000 light years away. So the telescope was tuned to 2380 megahertz, aimed at Hercules, and fired up.

Speaker 13 The scientists congratulated each other, shook hands, and went on with their lives. But 27 years later, something very unexpected happened with that message beamed into deep space.

Speaker 13 Someone wrote back.

Speaker 13 One morning in 1966, George Pedley was working his farm in Tully, Queensland, Australia, when he heard a strange buzzing sound.

Speaker 13 He climbed down from his tractor and started walking in the direction of the sound. Then, he saw a circular craft slowly rise above a section of swampland not 50 feet from where he was standing.

Speaker 13 The craft hovered for a few seconds, shot straight up into the sky and disappeared.

Speaker 13 When George went to investigate, he found a large circle of reeds had been pulled from the swamp and flattened into a disc.

Speaker 13 The circle was 30 feet across, two feet thick, and arranged in a clockwise swirl. Because of the swirl and the thickness of the reeds, locals call the formation a UFO nest.

Speaker 13 But what this actually was was a crop circle.

Speaker 13 Since the 1960s, thousands of crop circles or crop formations have been found. They've been seen on every continent in almost every country on Earth.

Speaker 13 But the epicenter for crop formations is Wiltshire in the southwest of England. Crop formations range from the very simple to the very complex.

Speaker 13 Formations can be circles, stars, and other geometric shapes, but some are pictograms, though nobody knows for sure what they mean.

Speaker 13 Though every formation is different, they have a few things in common: recognizable patterns that are created very quickly, usually at night.

Speaker 13 The creation of these patterns is always associated with some kind of light, either a beam of light or an orb of light.

Speaker 13 Oh my God.

Speaker 13 Though crop formations seem like a new phenomenon, there's evidence they've been appearing for a long time.

Speaker 13 In the 9th century, Abogard, the bishop of Lyon in France, wrote about parishioners who were possibly engaged in devil worship or paganism.

Speaker 13 They were collecting seeds out of flattened circles in the fields and using them for fertility rituals. In 1686, Robert Plott, a professor at Oxford, wrote about crop circles.

Speaker 13 He even drew pictures of a couple that appeared near his home. He said they were formed by a flash of light.
And once they were formed, animals wouldn't go near them.

Speaker 13 Around the same time, a pamphlet was released called The Mowing Devil. It describes how a farmer woke to see a bright light in his field that he thought was fire.

Speaker 13 When he went to investigate, he found a crop circle. It's called the Mowing Devil because the farmer said the circle was so neatly mowed that it could not have been done by a mortal man.

Speaker 13 John Leland served as librarian to Henry VIII. He wrote about patterns appearing in grass overnight.

Speaker 13 In 1937, a British science journal reported circles found in a field of barley and even included one of the first photos taken of a crop circle.

Speaker 13 In 1945, this photo was taken by a balloonist working for the RAF Parachute Training School. In 1952, the U.S.
Air Force investigated circles found in Kansas.

Speaker 13 In 1963, Sir Patrick Moore, an astronomer writing for the New Scientist Journal, investigated a formation in Charlton.

Speaker 74 In the wheat fields were features taking the form of circular or elliptical areas in which the wheat had been flattened. One very well-defined was an oval, 15 yards long by 4.5 broad.

Speaker 74 There was evidence of spiral flattening, and in one case there was a circular area in the center in which the wheat had not been flattened.

Speaker 13 One of the texts discovered in the Dead Sea Scrolls is the Book of Enoch. Enoch talks about lightning leaving marks on the earth.

Speaker 13 So these formations have been seen since the beginning of recorded history.

Speaker 13 And even though thousands of circles have been found and many people claimed to witness them forming, no one had ever caught it on camera until 1996.

Speaker 13 John Whaley was camping out on a hill in Wiltshire called Oliver's Castle, named for a fort that was built there many years ago. Around 3 a.m., something caught his eye.

Speaker 13 He grabbed his video camera and captured footage of several several glowing orbs hovering over a field. Then, like magic.

Speaker 13 Here's the formation from the air.

Speaker 13 Nobody can agree on what crop circles mean, though most people believe their messages. Now, this is frustrating to many researchers.

Speaker 13 They say, whoever's making these, why don't they just speak English? Well, in 2001, they did.

Speaker 71 Intelligently controlled.

Speaker 71 You see, the object came down and it stopped for a moment.

Speaker 71 Nothing random about. There's no movement in prevailing wind.

Speaker 71 I can't think what that is.

Speaker 71 The death famous air

Speaker 71 peace of ever

Speaker 13 in 1974, the Arecibo message was sent from Earth to a cluster of stars in the Hercules constellation.

Speaker 13 It's called the Arecibo message because that was the name of the giant radio telescope used to transmit it. The team that created the message was led by Dr.

Speaker 13 Frank Drake with assistance from Carl Sagan. The message was 1,679 binary digits that could be converted to an image, designed to convey information about civilization on Earth.

Speaker 13 It starts with a representation of the numbers 1 through 10. This provides a key to the rest of the message.

Speaker 13 Next, atomic numbers of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus, which are used to make up DNA. Carbon is at the top because it's the most dominant in forms of life.

Speaker 13 The message shows more information about DNA, including the double helix structure.

Speaker 13 For the bottom, a figure of a human, its average height, and the population of the Earth, which was a little over 4 billion at the time. Next, our solar system.

Speaker 13 starting with the Sun and moving out to Pluto. The Earth is shifted up to identify the planet sending the signal.
At the bottom, a graphic representing the Arecibo Radio Telescope.

Speaker 13 Now, the nearest star that could possibly receive the message is 25,000 light years away. So we couldn't really expect a reply for another 50,000 years.

Speaker 13 But on the morning of August 14th, 2001, a formation was discovered right next to the Chilbolton Radio Telescope.

Speaker 13 Now, even if you don't know the full design, when you're on the ground, you can tell you're in a crop circle. There's structure and uniformity to it.
But this new formation was different.

Speaker 13 It was a mess. It wasn't symmetrical.
Nobody could make sense of it until it was viewed from the air.

Speaker 13 Holy shit.

Speaker 68 A face.

Speaker 13 And three days later, this appeared.

Speaker 13 This became known as the Arecibo answer.

Speaker 13 The formation uses the same 23 by 73 grid. The top line shows the numbers 1 through 10, just like the original, but the reply shows silicon as the main element for life, not carbon.

Speaker 13 Their DNA is shown as having a third string. In the center is a humanoid figure about 4 feet tall with a large head, and their population is about 21 billion.
Below the figure is their solar system.

Speaker 13 They appear to occupy three objects in the system. the third and fourth planets, and then there's another shape that could mean a planet or some other object or structure.

Speaker 13 On the human Arecibo message is a picture of the radio telescope, which was used to send the message. Whoever sent the reply seems to understand this.
So, what is this design meant to represent?

Speaker 13 Well, just a year earlier, this formation appeared in the same place. Is this the same object? Is this crop formation a representation of a machine used to communicate through space?

Speaker 13 Again, frustrated researchers and skeptics agree on something. Why don't they just speak English? Well, almost exactly one year later, this formation appeared.

Speaker 21 My brain, my brain just exploded.

Speaker 13 Once again, we see a face, but that's not a human face. And just like the Arecibo message was broadcast in binary code, the disc formation also contains binary code.

Speaker 13 And for the first time, we get an actual literal message. The code was translated to letters using ASCII, the encoding standard for electronic communication.

Speaker 67 Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises.

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Speaker 13 Whoever it is that wants to communicate with us is using many different means. In 2004, Robert Ridge was deer hunting a few miles outside of Roswell, New Mexico.

Speaker 13 Half buried in the dirt, he found a strange rock. On the rock is a geometric carving.
Robert grabbed it and didn't think it was anything more than a cool rock someone lost at some point.

Speaker 13 But he didn't keep it a secret. He showed it to friends and anyone who was curious about it.
It didn't take long before strange discoveries were made about the rock.

Speaker 13 For one, it's magnetized lodestone, which is not a kind of rock found in that area. And under a microscope, the Roswell rock is extremely smooth.

Speaker 13 There's no carving marks or indication of sandblasting. But the most fascinating discovery is that in 1996, eight years before the Roswell rock was found, this crop formation appeared?

Speaker 13 The designs match up. Some people think this design is a message, others think it's a map.
Still, others think the Roswell Rock, the Arecibo Answer, and all crop circles are nothing but a hoax.

Speaker 13 But who would create such elaborate hoaxes? And why? Well, in 1991, we would get the answer when a British newspaper ran a front-page story with the headline, The Men Who Con the World. Oh no.

Speaker 13 On September 9th, 1991, two retirees in their 60s confessed to starting the crop circle phenomenon in 1978. Doug Bower said the idea came to him one night in a pub.

Speaker 13 He was living in Queensland in 1966 when the Tully UFO left behind that circle of reeds.

Speaker 13 Doug thought it would be fun to trick people into thinking UFOs were landing in wheat fields in southern England. He enlisted the help of his friend Dave Chorley.

Speaker 13 All they needed to make a crop circle was a wood plank, a bit of rope, and a twisted piece of wire. At first, their designs were simple and crude, but over time they became more and more complex.

Speaker 23 And you could center this through this ring, walk straight towards it, and lo and behold, you got the lovely straight line that you could wish for.

Speaker 13 International media picked up the story, and the mystery was solved. Crop circles were nothing more than a couple of amiable old fellows playing a prank, and that was that.
That's it.

Speaker 21 And the story is kind of disappointing.

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Doug and Dave might have created a few crop circles, but their story has a lot of holes.

Speaker 13 They demonstrated their circle making technique and the results were janky. Most crop formations, even back then, were much more precise.
Doug and Dave's formations were out of alignment every time.

Speaker 13 The more complicated the design, the worse the formations were.

Speaker 13 During one demonstration for a news crew, Doug attempted to reproduce one of his circles and accidentally made it twice as big as it should have been. Then he just gave up on making it.

Speaker 13 And their story changed over time. They said they started making circles in 1976, then it was 1975, then it was 1978.
In fact, they never could agree on the year they actually started.

Speaker 13 Now, they claimed to have created certain circles and then later said they didn't, but they helped people who did.

Speaker 13 And Doug and Dave said they created this famous crop circle in 1983 called the Cheesefoot Head Circle. Doug showed a diagram of it, but his diagram had foot paths in it.
The circle had no paths.

Speaker 13 It had no disturbances of any kind. When asked how they created the circle without making tracks in the crop, Doug said they pole vaulted into the field.

Speaker 21 Did you just say pole vaulted?

Speaker 13 Yep. He said in an interview that you should have seen us running through the fields with our sticks sailing over the corn.

Speaker 21 Yeah, I would like to see that, actually.

Speaker 13 Oh, me too, pal. Apparently, these men in their 60s, pole-vaulted into fields carrying their wood boards.
They laid down a perfect crop formation and pole-vaulted vaulted out again.

Speaker 13 Now, Doug looks pretty fit for an older guy, but he's getting winded walking in a circle. Pole vaulting seems a little outside of his athletic range.

Speaker 13 They also added details to their story as other crop circles were found.

Speaker 13 One day, a couple of people investigating a circle told Doug they were looking for a jelly-like substance that was found in a formation. Doug told them it was probably waste ejected from a plane.

Speaker 13 Later, Doug had a story about making a crop circle, and while he was doing it, he got hit in the head with a piece of frozen waste ejected from a plane's toilet.

Speaker 21 And he called those Boeing bombs.

Speaker 13 Right.

Speaker 21 Yeah, big old frozen chunk of poopy.

Speaker 13 He stumbled back to his car, dazed with blood trickling down his face. The problem is, planes don't dump waste over that area.
It would be illegal, dangerous, and disgusting.

Speaker 13 Another story came out about people finding bits of metal thought to be meteorites at crop formations. Soon after that, Doug and Dave's crop circles had little bits of iron scattered all around.

Speaker 13 So, a few things. Did Doug Bauer Bauer and Dave Chorley create some crop circles? Yes.
When Doug and Dave came forward, about 1,500 crop circles had been seen in at least 23 countries.

Speaker 21 Well, you can't pove Walter Belgium.

Speaker 13 Right, even Doug couldn't do that. But they inspired a lot of copycats.
Soon, most crop formations were man-made. So, is there a scientific way to tell if a crop circle is not a hoax, but genuine?

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Speaker 13 Most crop formations are man-made. The vast majority are.
And there are telltale signs of this.

Speaker 13 Sometimes spotting a man-made crop circle is as simple as finding a footpath through the field leading up to the design.

Speaker 13 But often crop formations intersect the lines made by tractors called tram lines, which can hide tracks. To spot a hoax, we look at the plants themselves.

Speaker 13 Man-made crop circles done by flattening plants with boards are destructive to the plants. You'll see cracks and bruises on the stalks.
On the ground, the crushed plants look messy.

Speaker 13 The leaves and flowers will be mashed to the ground. Marks will be visible on only one side of the plant where it was stomped by a plank of wood.

Speaker 13 Many of those marks are creases where you can actually bend the stalk. Genuine crop circles don't look like this at all.
First, the lay of the pattern will flow like water.

Speaker 13 There's a gentleness to it and elegance. And many times the stalks are layered and even braided.
In genuine crop circles, most plants aren't damaged.

Speaker 13 They'll continue to grow horizontally and then after a few days return to their vertical position in this formation found in may 2005 the flowers weren't damaged at all they were somehow laid down gently

Speaker 13 a group of clumsy men with wooden boards couldn't do this we know this because it was tried a group of crop circle makers attempted to reproduce this formation from the air it looks pretty good but on the ground the man-made version is a mess the plants are trashed a formation in 2003 was especially puzzling.

Speaker 13 In parts of the design, the plants weren't completely flattened. They were bent a few inches from the top.
It's been described as like the grooves of a record.

Speaker 13 How do you make this with planks and rope? You don't. You don't.
Another sign of a genuine circle can be seen, especially in wheat.

Speaker 13 In late summer, when wheat turns gold, the kernels become heavy and bend over from the weight. They also become stiff and are impossible to straighten.

Speaker 13 But the wheat within a crop circle, the kernels have straightened out and can't be bent. So what would do this? Radiation.

Speaker 13 Wheat stalks are separated by structures called apical nodes. These are like the knuckles on your fingers.

Speaker 13 In the 1990s, biophysicist William Levengood started analyzing plants taken from crop circles. His team found the nodes in crop circle wheat were elongated.
and in many cases they were ruptured.

Speaker 21 Oh, a rupture on an elongated node? I think they make a cream for that.

Speaker 13 This rupture is called an expulsion cavity. The only way this could be replicated is with bursts of microwave radiation.

Speaker 13 The way your microwave oven works is it heats up water, fats, and sugar in food. Microwave energy is heating up the water in the wheatstalk nodes.

Speaker 13 The water turns to steam and then they burst, just like popcorn. Now you can't fake this.
It happens to the plant internally.

Speaker 25 There's no way you could hoax that.

Speaker 13 People who claim to have witnessed crop circles being made, and there's quite a few witnesses, report seeing a mist over the pattern immediately after it's formed.

Speaker 13 This mist is actually steam coming from the plants that were flash heated by microwave radiation.

Speaker 13 While experimenting with radiation, Levengood found crop circle seed had a huge increase in growth compared to non-crop circle seed.

Speaker 13 By exposing seeds to short controlled bursts of radiation, they grow bigger and faster than seeds not exposed to radiation.

Speaker 13 Another experiment showed that wheat harvested from within a crop circle has a much higher amount of protein than wheat outside the circle.

Speaker 13 So there's evidence that whatever energy is used to create crop formations is leaving residual traces of this energy in the area.

Speaker 13 Some crop formations are covered in a dusting of microscopic spheres of magnetized iron, specifically meteorite iron. Researchers call this a magnetic glaze.

Speaker 13 These spheres are usually found around the perimeter of a formation and they're distributed linearly, not not randomly.

Speaker 13 Because the iron particles are magnetized perfect spheres, it means they were melted and formed within a highly energetic magnetic field.

Speaker 13 When people are inside crop formations, many are affected by electromagnetic radiation. Just look at this.

Speaker 13 As part of an experiment, a woman with an enlarged thyroid sat in a crop formation for two and a half hours. While being monitored by a doctor, her thyroid shrunk by 40%.

Speaker 13 Often cameras, watches, and other electronic devices stop working inside a crop circle. In fact, pregnant women and people with pacemakers are discouraged from going near one.

Speaker 13 Now, to skeptics, all this talk about energy sounds woo-woo, but I just showed you the real effects on plants and people.

Speaker 13 Now, it's fair to say that the elongated nodes and growth rates of wheat could be a coincidence.

Speaker 13 It's also fair to say that the physical reactions experienced by people could be psychosomatic, all in their minds. But skeptics, how do you explain this?

Speaker 13 These are called ghost formations or ghost circles. This is when the design of a crop formation is still visible after the field has been plowed.

Speaker 13 Sometimes a ghost formation remains through the following season. Sometimes it remains for two years before finally fading.
But this doesn't happen with all crop formations.

Speaker 13 Nobody knows why, but it could have something to do with where the patterns are found. A study was done in the early 2000s of all the crop circles in southern England found that year.

Speaker 13 The study showed that 98% of all non-man-made formations were over chalk aquifers. And by the way, chalk aquifers can be used for generating electricity.

Speaker 13 Everything keeps pointing back to electromagnetism.

Speaker 13 If there's an epicenter for crop formations in southern England, it's Silbury Hill. Silbury Hill was built thousands of years ago.
It's 129 feet tall and covers an area of about five acres.

Speaker 13 Nobody agrees on what it was originally used for, but every year crop formations appear near it, sometimes right next to it. And by the way, the whole thing is one giant pile of chalk.

Speaker 13 Not far from Silver Hill is Stonehenge. Crop circles appear there too.
One of the most famous of these is called the Stonehenge Surprise.

Speaker 13 On Sunday, July 7th, 1996, this formation appeared near feet from Stonehenge. It's been called one of the most complex and spectacular crop circle designs ever seen.

Speaker 13 The design is a Julia set, a type of fractal. Fractals are visual representations of mathematic formulas that repeat themselves at different scales.
Zoom way in or way out, the pattern is the same.

Speaker 13 Look at how close Stonehenge is to the formation. Look at the visibility.
Stonehenge has 24-hour security. The guards saw nothing unusual the night before.

Speaker 13 Crop formations also appear near Avebury, which is in the same area. The Avery Henge is massive, twice the size of Stonehenge.

Speaker 13 Now, a ley line is believed to be an invisible path or energy line that connects sacred sites.

Speaker 13 Ley lines are thought to create a network of energy across the Earth, influencing the flow of energy and aligning with cosmic forces. The area around Stonehenge is on one of those ley lines.

Speaker 13 If crop formations are an attempt at communication, they're clearly using mathematic concepts. And this would make sense.
Math is a universal language. But what do the messages mean?

Speaker 13 What story do they tell? Are crop formations proof of space travel? Do they offer an explanation for space travel? Are crop formations a map? Are they blueprints for a machine?

Speaker 13 Well, the answer to all those questions is yes.

Speaker 13 Over the years, crop formations got more and more complex. What started out as simple circles became patterns like this.
This is the famous Milk Hill Galaxy Spiral found in 2001.

Speaker 13 The spiral consists of 409 perfect circles a thousand feet across spread over 700,000 square feet. And look at how clean the design is.
That's not even flat ground.

Speaker 13 This formation is a hard one for skeptics to deal with. Remember, England is pretty far north.
In the summer, the days are very, very long.

Speaker 13 The night the spiral was made, there was only about four hours of darkness. It would take a huge crew of people to lay down this pattern in four hours.

Speaker 13 And by the way, it was raining the night it appeared. You'd think the field would be full of muddy footprints by the army of hoaxers it would take to make this.

Speaker 13 But nope, the Milk Hill spiral is pristine. Fractals are a common theme with crop formations.
Geometric shapes and other expressions of mathematic functions are also quite common.

Speaker 13 Even complex math problems are expressed. Squaring the circle is a problem in geometry first proposed in Greek mathematics.

Speaker 13 Squaring the circle involves using a compass and a ruler to create a square and circle with the same area.

Speaker 13 Now, this has been proven impossible since calculating the area of a circle requires using pi. And if you remember your math lessons, pi is an irrational number, meaning it can never be exact.

Speaker 13 So you can never get the area of a circle to equal the area of a square. But there are methods that allow you to get close.
And these methods have been seen in crop formations for years.

Speaker 13 Crop formations often use other mathematic concepts like the golden ratio and Fibonacci numbers. Here's a formation that when it appeared, people found very confusing.
Then a mathematician solved it.

Speaker 13 It's a representation of pi out to 10 decimal places. The lengths of the arcs represent each digit.
There's even a decimal point and an indication that the number continues forever.

Speaker 13 But there are also designs that at first glance look like geometry but not exactly right. That's when some researchers had the idea to stop looking and start listening.

Speaker 13 This particular circle resembles what's called a cymatic pattern. A cymatic pattern is a shape that forms when sound waves vibrate a material like water or sand.

Speaker 13 Ernst Klabny was a German physicist physicist and musician who documented cymatic patterns.

Speaker 13 He proved that different sound frequencies create different patterns and these patterns could be predicted and repeated.

Speaker 13 Could the builder of this crop circle be telling us that this sound frequency has special meaning? If it does, how do we apply it? Well, let's look for more clues.

Speaker 13 In 2011, this double spiral formation appeared on Windmill Hill, the location of another ancient site. The same day, another double spiral appeared near Stonehenge, just a few miles away.
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Speaker 13 Jerry Croth thought these formations could represent neutron stars. And although it's very rare, sometimes neutron stars collide and form a magnetar.

Speaker 13 What makes magnetars unique is their incredibly strong magnetic fields, which are among the strongest known in the universe.

Speaker 13 These magnetic fields are thousands to billions of times stronger than those of neutron stars. A magnetar's gravity is so strong that it dramatically warps space-time around it.

Speaker 13 In theory, this warping of space-time could lead to an Einstein-Rosen bridge, better known as a wormhole.

Speaker 13 A wormhole, again, in theory, can connect two very distant points in space, essentially creating a shortcut that allows you to travel to a location faster than light could get there in a straight line.

Speaker 13 Now, I'm aware this is a lot of in-theory and possibly and maybe regarding these crop formations. After all, magnetars are so rare that in the entire galaxy, only 10 have ever been found.
Well, 11.

Speaker 13 Because the following day, literally the day after these crop formations appeared, a new Magnetar appeared. I don't mean it was always there and was just discovered.

Speaker 13 I mean it wasn't there yesterday and it's there today. Then in 2022 this crop formation appears.
Two sections of concentric rings connected by a line.

Speaker 13 It's been theorized that this represents a wormhole. It shows two points in space surrounded by warped space-time and then a portal between.
The outer ring represents the bending of space-time.

Speaker 13 Now, maybe this crop formation is just a design with no special meaning, but that would be rare. Almost all crop formations have a message or purpose.

Speaker 13 So let's assume for fun that all these messages are puzzle pieces, that when the pieces are fit together, they show proof of a wormhole and a map of how to get to it. But how? How do we do that?

Speaker 13 Well, that's the question that electrical engineer Nikola Romansky asked. Nikola saw this image of a crop circle that seemed to be meaningless.
It didn't have a recognizable geometry.

Speaker 13 It wasn't symmetrical. But Nikola had an idea.
He brought the shape into his 3D software and extruded it around the center axis, meaning he spun it around to make a shape.

Speaker 13 So Nikola found more crop formations and did the same thing. He rotated the designs around a central axis to create their shapes in 3D.

Speaker 13 And after a while, he had a collection of what appeared to be blueprints, instructions on how to create some kind of machine.

Speaker 21 So what did he do?

Speaker 13 What do you think he did? He built it.

Speaker 13 Nikola Romansky reached out to filmmaker Charles Maxwell and asked for help. Maxwell was working on a documentary about prop circles.
Nikola needed help and funding to build his machine.

Speaker 13 This machine, he thought, was a vehicle that ran on zero-point energy, could alter gravity, and reach light speed. How can you not build it? So they enlisted 3D designers and machinists.

Speaker 13 They hired electricians and fabricators. It took over three years and they finally had their prototype.

Speaker 13 It didn't work.

Speaker 13 Well, they got some plasma to ignite, but they ran out of money.

Speaker 13 The entire process is in the documentary, which I linked below. The truth is, whatever they were building probably wasn't going to work.

Speaker 13 But it's possible that Nicola was onto something, that the secret to zero-point energy, gravity, and space-time all comes down to one thing, spin.

Speaker 13 Whenever government whistleblowers describe reverse engineering UFOs, spin is always a core piece of the technology.

Speaker 13 According to Mark McHanlish, a former aerospace designer, UFO anti-gravity and propulsion are achieved by rotating liquid mercury.

Speaker 13 The infamous Nazi bell-shaped UFO de Glaca was said to use similar technology. Bob Lazar talked about studying Element 115 when he worked at Area 51.
E-115 is said to power alien spacecraft.

Speaker 13 And when Lazar made those claims in the 1980s, there was no such element. But in 2003, E-115 was discovered.
A whistleblower came forward just a few weeks ago.

Speaker 13 He claims to have been a military contractor working on reverse engineering UFOs. He said their engines use counter-rotating cylinders with element 115 as the power source.

Speaker 13 Russian physicist Nikolai Kozarev believed the twisting and spinning of space-time called torsion was the secret to unlocking gravity and unlocking everything.

Speaker 13 In 2019, an engineer working for the U.S. Navy filed a patent for a plasma compression fusion device.

Speaker 13 This is a machine that can generate a tremendous amount of power, like terawatts of power, in a small package.

Speaker 13 The device is about the size of a car, but can put out as much energy as a nuclear power plant. If it's real, the energy is clean and unlimited.
His invention is based on spin.

Speaker 13 The scientist is Salvatore Peiss, and he currently works for the U.S. Space Force.
He's filed quite a few interesting patents on behalf of the United States government.

Speaker 13 Propulsion engines, room temperature superconductors, inertial mass reduction devices, and high-frequency gravitational wave generators. This may sound like science fiction, but the U.S.

Speaker 13 military is taking these patents very seriously. Every single one of them is based on spin.

Speaker 13 Now, I don't know if it's irony or poetic justice, but it could turn out that nature's most mysterious secrets like gravity won't be discovered in a lab.

Speaker 13 It's possible that unlocking the secrets of nature might be done in a field of wheat.

Speaker 13 Crop circles are a controversial subject. The history of the crop circle community, if that's what you want to call it, is filled with intrigue, lies, and double crosses.

Speaker 13 Today, if you bring up crop circles in any mainstream venue, you'll get eye rolls and laughter. But that wasn't always the case.

Speaker 13 At one time, crop formations were taken seriously by the media, the government, and the general population.

Speaker 13 A new type of science emerged called seriology, named for Ceres, the goddess of agriculture and grain crops. Journals were created.
Articles about crop formations were mainstream.

Speaker 13 Nick Pope spent over 20 years investigating UFOs for the British Ministry of Defense. He said the army started investigating crop circles in 1985.

Speaker 13 Then glyphs started to appear in southern England in 1989, and crop formations were becoming complex. There seemed to be an intelligence at work.

Speaker 13 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher asked her cabinet to find out what the hell was going on. The following summer, Operation Blackbird was launched.

Speaker 13 Blackbird was a three-week surveillance operation with the goal of filming a crop circle forming in real time.

Speaker 13 The project was planned by prominent crop circle researchers Colin Andrews and Pat Delgado. It was sponsored by the BBC and Japanese national television.

Speaker 13 Not only did the project have the blessing of the British government, but the crops to be filmed were on land owned by the Ministry of Defense.

Speaker 13 By working with the MOD, acres of farmland could be cordoned off to keep out hoaxers and prevent any genuine crop circles from being trampled by a curious and excited public.

Speaker 13 The military had every inch of the field covered with cameras. They had night vision and even infrared cameras to detect body heat.
If a circle was going to form, it would definitely be seen.

Speaker 13 This was a huge event. Millions of people around the world watched, and every day Colin Andrews would appear on TV and describe the day's events.

Speaker 13 On day two, a crop circle appeared, and Colin Andrews went on television and spoke very enthusiastically about the discovery. And then everything came crashing down.
The formation was a hoax.

Speaker 13 Not just a hoax, but an embarrassing one. The design was crude and placed in the center of the circle was an astrology board game.

Speaker 13 Colin Andrews, a serious investigator and the face of the crop circle phenomenon, was humiliated.

Speaker 23 Somebody's had a laugh, they've had a a joke, they've actually done none of us any good, but sets these sort of things, only set the research back.

Speaker 13 In the span of an afternoon, the field of crop circle research went from mainstream science to fringe theory, and it's been there ever since. Hang on.
What?

Speaker 21 If the army had the whole thing black dwarf and covered with cameras, how come they didn't see nothing? It was a setup. It was a setup.
Well, allegedly. Totally a setup.

Speaker 13 Colin Andrews believes, and I think there's plenty of evidence to support his theory, that the army intentionally wanted to discredit him and the entire crop circle phenomenon.

Speaker 13 That doesn't mean the military didn't believe in crop formations. Quite the opposite.

Speaker 13 At the same exact time the highly public Operation Blackbird was going on, the Army was running a secret surveillance operation a few miles away on Silbury Hill.

Speaker 13 In fact, they allegedly had film of bright orbs flying over the fields just to the south of the hill. But this operation only became known later.
It appears that Blackbird was sleight of hand.

Speaker 13 Get the public focused on Blackbird, while the real operation took place a few miles away. Even now, when crop circles or glowing orbs appear, it's not uncommon for military helicopters to show up.

Speaker 13 Not only do the helicopters patrol the area, but they'll also chase the orbs around the countryside. Clearly, the military believes that crop formations are something more than simple hoaxes.

Speaker 13 But after the Blackbird fiasco, none of this mattered. Crop circles were debunked, and Colin Andrews became a fringe character.

Speaker 13 Colin's partner, Pat Delgado, was so disheartened by the Blackbird hoax that he retired and gave up his research.

Speaker 13 But that's not the end of the story. Go on.
Colin Andrews may have become fringe in the public's eye, but he was a serious investigator. And crop circles were a real phenomenon.

Speaker 13 Even without mainstream support, he continued his work and plenty of people supported him. Believers in crop circles were now fringe believers, but they still believed.

Speaker 13 This could be a problem for the government. They couldn't allow crop circles back into the mainstream.
So British intelligence began a disinformation campaign.

Speaker 13 And to help them spread disinformation, they brought in the best. CIA.
CIA. In his 1999 book, Cosmic Top Secret, The Unseen Agenda, author John King got Colin Andrews to sit for an interview.

Speaker 13 Colin knew that the only way hoaxers could get onto that field during Blackbird was if it was an inside job. When Colin made the announcement that a crop circle appeared, he hadn't even seen it yet.

Speaker 13 It was pitch black. He was pressured to make the announcement, so he did.
He didn't report what he had seen with his own eyes. He reported what was described to him by the army.

Speaker 13 As soon as the sun came up, he knew it was a hoax, but there was nothing he could do.

Speaker 13 He had a deal with the military that they would provide people, equipment, and land, but he had to cooperate with them.

Speaker 13 Yep. According to Colin, phase one of the disinformation campaign was to debunk crop circles with Operation Blackbird.
Phase two was Doug and Dave, who showed up a year later.

Speaker 13 Doug Bauer and Dave Chorley admitted to being the makers of crop circles. And to this day, that's the official explanation.

Speaker 13 Colin doesn't think they're part of the intelligence community, but he believes they were used by and compensated by people in the IC.

Speaker 21 They were paid?

Speaker 13 Oh yeah, they were paid thousands of dollars for their story. We know this for a fact because they were only paid half up front.
They had to sue for the other half.

Speaker 21 Deal with the devil.

Speaker 13 Next came phase three. A freelance journalist named Jim Schnabel arrived on the scene.
According to Colin Andrews, Schnabel was CIA.

Speaker 13 Now, James Schnabel was not an official CIA officer, but he certainly could have been an agent. If you search his name in the CIA database, you'll get plenty of hits.

Speaker 13 And Schnabel's name is always connected to paranormal cases like crop circles and remote viewing.

Speaker 13 Anyway, Schnabel was conducting private interviews with everyone involved with Blackbird and with other crop circle researchers.

Speaker 13 He was driving wedges between people, misquoting them, and pushing the narrative that crop circles were debunked.

Speaker 13 Colin Andrews became convinced of Schnabel's CIA involvement during a spooky conversation.

Speaker 13 Schnabel had recorded and read to Colin the details of private conversations Colin had one evening while sitting in his car alone.

Speaker 13 And Colin Andrews has other evidence that he was being bugged and surveilled. It has to do a lot with invoices and stuff, and I'll link below if you want the specifics.

Speaker 21 He literally has the receipts.

Speaker 13 He has the receipts. And look, it's very, very common for the CIA to use journalists as assets.
More common than people think. People talk to journalists, so they're useful at collecting intel.

Speaker 13 And people listen to journalists, so they're great at spreading disinformation. You may have heard about Operation Mockingbird.

Speaker 13 This was a project where over 400 American journalists were working as direct assets for the CIA.

Speaker 13 Carl Bernstein exposed how at least 10 journalists and editors at the New York Times were CIA operatives for years.

Speaker 13 And this is still happening right now, and I can prove it. But covering that and Operation Mockingbird is a full episode.
And if you'd like to hear the whole story, let me know in the comments.

Speaker 13 Now, whatever your favorite newspaper is or your favorite news channel is, assume 10% of editors, reporters, and media personalities are working for the CIA or FBI in some capacity.

Speaker 13 Yes, it's that many.

Speaker 21 But JFK warned us this would happen.

Speaker 13 He certainly did.

Speaker 13 Colin Andrews remembers a direct approach from a CIA operative he met a man who claimed to have seen a crop circle being formed while he was out one night studying foxes oh sexy brutes no actual foxes

Speaker 13 the man used this story as a way of being accepted in the crop circle scene people got used to seeing him around well a few weeks later this man knocks on colin's door they go for a walk and the man asks colin tons of questions about crop circles their locations what he thinks they are and on and on but colin started to get annoyed when the man was asking if he knew if the russians were involved At the end of their talk, the man tells Colin, you're one of us now.

Speaker 78 I said, what do you mean? And he said, and it sounds even funny coming out of my mouth, but he said, CIA.

Speaker 13 The man told Colin that there was a large amount of money waiting for him in a Swiss bank account. All he had to do was state publicly that crop circles were a hoax.

Speaker 13 Colin could go on researching circles all he wanted. The CIA would help him become the number one crop circle expert in the world.
They would give him special equipment. They would give him a staff.

Speaker 13 They would give him a budget. But when he came across a real crop formation, he was to call this man and nobody else.

Speaker 13 Colin Andrews passed on this offer, but the man harassed him with phone calls for a while after that.

Speaker 13 Soon the calls became so threatening that Colin contacted the British Ministry of Defense, but they said there was nothing they could do. What, what? Well, they said it was out of their jurisdiction.

Speaker 21 Oh, was he in England?

Speaker 13 Yep.

Speaker 21 That is a bunch of bullshit.

Speaker 13 Yeah, Colin was annoyed, but after a short time, the call stopped. Eventually, Colin Andrews moved to the the U.S.

Speaker 13 And here he was approached by a Pentagon analyst who introduced him to a writer named Rosemary Ellen Guiley. You might know her name from her many appearances on the Coast to Coast radio show.

Speaker 13 She wrote 49 books and even hosted her own radio show all about the paranormal. Colin said Rosemary went to, in his words, every extreme to try and convince him to co-author a book with her.

Speaker 13 And she wanted to work on the book in his office, which would give her access to Colin Andrews' entire database on crop circles going back 30 years. She was persistent, but he turned her down.

Speaker 13 Colin is convinced, without a doubt, that Rosemary Guiley was a CIA asset.

Speaker 13 Again, Rosemary Guiley was the perfect candidate for an intelligence asset, especially since she was a regular guest on coast to coast where she would be heard by millions of people.

Speaker 13 She would be allowed to continue her work in any way she wanted, but from time to time, she would be instructed to disseminate information provided by the intelligence community.

Speaker 13 It's more common than you think. So yeah, Rosemary Guiley was the perfect asset.

Speaker 21 I can't help but notice.

Speaker 13 Yeah, she died in 2019 at the age of 69.

Speaker 21 Man, it's kind of young to die, isn't it?

Speaker 13 Isn't it? There's another Crop Circles character with an interesting story. John Lundberg is an English artist and documentary filmmaker who founded the website circlemakers.org in the early 90s.

Speaker 13 He's responsible or claims to be responsible for some of the more elaborate crop formations that have been found over the years.

Speaker 13 On the Circle Makers website, which is still around, there are links to the many crop formations that the group takes credit for.

Speaker 13 There's no doubt that the Circle Makers created complicated and often very beautiful crop formations. But Crop Circle researchers Robert Hulse and David A.

Speaker 13 Caton think there's more to John than meets the eye.

Speaker 68 But in our opinion,

Speaker 68 the whole Circle Makers website and

Speaker 68 Lumberg and co.

Speaker 68 are all part of a disinformation campaign, possibly funded by government.

Speaker 13 Robert Hulse said at one time the Circle Makers website had a recruiting link that took you directly to the recruitment page for MI5, British Military Intelligence.

Speaker 13 Hulse believes that the Circle Makers group is funded by British intelligence and was specifically created to spread disinformation.

Speaker 13 Hulse believes the Circle Makers goal is to muddy the waters and confuse serious crop circle researchers to make it as difficult as possible to determine what was and wasn't a genuine crop formation.

Speaker 13 Now, there's no hard evidence that the Circle Makers or its founder are connected to military intelligence. But in 2009, researcher Richard D.

Speaker 13 Hall dug into Lundberg's background and found a lot of interesting information. Lundberg got his master's from the Slade School of Fine Art in London in 1992.

Speaker 13 At this time, Slade was next door to the then-secret headquarters of MI5 at 140 Gower Street. It was literally next door.
The two buildings shared a courtyard.

Speaker 13 Hall makes the point that intelligence agencies often recruit final year college students. That's always been true and is still true today.

Speaker 13 Lundberg started making crop circles immediately after graduating. Paul notes that if you view the HTML source of circlemakers.org, the second keyword is MI5.

Speaker 13 Now that was in 2009, but even today, the site's keywords contain entries like MI5 and CIA.

Speaker 13 And something I just noticed while researching this episode, why is alleged CIA asset Jim Schnabel a keyword on this site?

Speaker 13 In 2004, the Circle Makers website teased Colin Andrews, who at the time was raising money for his research.

Speaker 13 Circle Makers said that if the fundraising fails, Colin could just join MI5 PsyOps and retrain to be a crop circles maker.

Speaker 13 Now, PSYOPS is short for psychological operations, which is the use of psychological techniques and tactics to influence the perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors of a group of people.

Speaker 13 And this is a type of strategic communication used by military intelligence and government organizations all the time.

Speaker 21 It sure is. Just turn on the news.

Speaker 13 Well, that's true. If you spent an hour reading the news today, you consumed government intel.
Believe me.

Speaker 13 Now, Hall acknowledges that these references to MI5 seem just too blatant, but he believes they're a double bluff.

Speaker 13 Meaning, if we sarcastically connect ourselves to the intelligence community, people will think we're joking. Nobody would be so obvious.
But this is absolutely a real and effective psyops technique.

Speaker 13 Hall found that the website was hosted in Pittsburgh. Now, at the time and even today, to some degree, it's uncommon for British organizations to host their sites in the U.S.

Speaker 13 And Hall found that the administrative contact for the domain belongs to a colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
Now, it could be a coincidence, but the man has an unusual name.

Speaker 13 Now, I'm not going to name him here, but I'll link to Hall's research down below. Richard Hall looked into Circle Makers' finances, trying to figure out how they pay their bills.

Speaker 13 Lundberg had registered a couple of companies, but they were inactive. But there was an interesting quote on the Circle Maker's website.

Speaker 79 You'd be surprised how expensive running a successful website can be. Don't panic.
We're not going to ask you for money.

Speaker 79 Our retainer, from sources we'd rather not disclose, has kept our virtual head above water.

Speaker 13 What does that mean? A retainer? From who? Who's financing them? Making crop formations is technically a crime. It's trespassing, vandalism, destruction of private property.

Speaker 13 What investor would fund that and become complicit in those crimes? Plus, there could could be civil liability.

Speaker 13 If you create a crop circle and a bunch of strangers show up and tear up my field, I could sue you for that.

Speaker 13 Even if they're minor crimes and rarely prosecuted, it doesn't sound like a good investment. Hall did a land registry check on the apartment where Lundberg was living at the time.

Speaker 13 He found that technically, there are no apartments listed on the deed.

Speaker 13 Hall dug further and found that there are four apartments, including Lundberg's, that have their rents paid by the local government.

Speaker 13 So did Richard Hall reveal that John Lundberg is in fact an asset working in media whose job is to spread disinformation about crop circles?

Speaker 13 Well, the evidence Hall provides is purely circumstantial and coincidental, so there's no way to know for sure. In fact, some of Hall's evidence is so far-fetched, I left it out of this episode.

Speaker 13 But a few years after Richard Hall conducted his research, Lundberg directed a documentary, a documentary that I've referred to multiple times on this channel. It's called MirageMan.

Speaker 13 MirageMen covers Richard Doty, a retired special agent who worked for OSI, the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigation, Air Force Intelligence.

Speaker 13 Richard Doty is, according to Mirage Men, one of the chief architects of the military's campaign to disseminate lies to the UFO community. In other words, to spread disinformation.

Speaker 13 Doty's job was to muddy the waters so UFO researchers wouldn't know what sightings were real and what were hoaxes.

Speaker 13 Now this is, according to Hall, Hulse, Caton, and many others, exactly what the circle makers have done and have been doing to the crop circles community for years there's a reason why john lundberg would make a great intelligence asset and rosemary guiley and james schnabel and countless other writers journalists and media figures they already work in the paranormal community they're trusted by that community they continue to do their work but every so often they spread a little bit of disinformation to that community a little nugget to steer people away from the truth This is why you shouldn't trust anyone in the media.

Speaker 13 Whether it's your favorite news anchor, TV show host, podcaster, blogger, or writer, be wary of anyone with influence. These media personalities may seem trustworthy.

Speaker 13 They may seem like they have your best interests in mind, but some of that is just a performance.

Speaker 13 Not all of it, but some of it is a performance designed to sway your opinion or even alter your entire belief system.

Speaker 13 The intelligence community does not want you to know the truth about crop circles, UFOs, secret space programs, or alien technology. That's a fact.

Speaker 13 Millions, perhaps billions of dollars are put into black budget programs designed to distract and confuse you from the truth.

Speaker 13 When CIA needs to spread disinformation, they look for trustworthy people with large audiences to deliver their message. So keep your eye out for clues.

Speaker 13 An intelligence operative, an agent, an asset could be

Speaker 13 anyone.

Speaker 13 Yep, that one turned me into a believer. And here's another one.

Speaker 13 This one coming up is in the moon compilation, but I have to put it here too. Because this is another story that at first I thought the theory was crazy.
Just bonkers.

Speaker 13 That the moon is a hollow spaceship brought here from another part of the galaxy. That was insane.
So I started researching it. And about halfway through the episode, I was thinking

Speaker 13 something's up with the moon.

Speaker 13 And then by the time I

Speaker 13 finished researching and read the episode, I was convinced the moon is a hollow spaceship brought here from somewhere else in the galaxy.

Speaker 13 This isn't our most watched episode, but

Speaker 13 when

Speaker 13 people recommend this channel to others, this is one of the episodes they recommend. I do too.
I think it's a great one. Hope you enjoy it.

Speaker 13 Despite it being humanity's constant companion through all of recorded time, the moon is still a mystery. Science hasn't been able to explain how the moon was formed.

Speaker 13 Its unusual orbit, its distance from us, its density, its composition, its structure. These are all still questions.

Speaker 13 Now, there are theories about the moon that solve some of these puzzles, but they don't solve all of them. There's only one theory that answers every scientific question about the moon.
Just one.

Speaker 13 That the moon is a hollow artificial structure brought here by someone else. Let's find out why.

Speaker 13 Let's start at the beginning. We're taught that the moon has been here forever, but there's controversy about this because scientists can't agree on how the moon was formed in the first place.

Speaker 13 The first theory of how the moon became linked to the Earth is the capture theory. It says the moon was just floating along, drifted near the Earth, and was pulled into orbit.

Speaker 13 This is almost impossible. Another explanation is the accretion theory that the moon and Earth formed out of dust clouds in the early solar system.

Speaker 13 But when systems form through accretion, they share similar traits. If the moon was formed this way, it would have an iron core like the Earth.
It would spin on an axis like the Earth.

Speaker 13 But neither of these are true.

Speaker 13 The fission hypothesis was popular for a while, and this says the early Earth was spinning so fast that the moon was formed out of rock in the Pacific Ocean that was flung into space.

Speaker 13 But we later learned that moon rock is much older than the bottom of the ocean, so this is unlikely. The most popular explanation is the giant impact theory.

Speaker 13 This says that a large object about the size of Mars smashed into the proto-Earth. The debris field from the collision coalesced to create the Earth-Moon system.

Speaker 13 Again, these conditions would have to be so perfect that the odds are

Speaker 13 right. Now, a recent theory is a combination of all of these.
that a large object collided with the Earth about four and a half billion years ago, essentially vaporizing it.

Speaker 13 And this vapor is called a synestia. And the synestia was spinning very rapidly, forming a torus.
And the moon formed on the edge of this torus.

Speaker 21 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. Taurus?

Speaker 21 What's a torus?

Speaker 13 Well, this shape is a torus.

Speaker 21 Uh, that looks like a donut.

Speaker 13 It does, but in geometry, if you revolve a circle around an axis in three-dimensional space, it's called a torus.

Speaker 21 Neesh, and you wonder why you're not popular at parties.

Speaker 13 I'm very popular at parties. Aren't I?

Speaker 13 So, we still don't know how the moon was created. You would think that actually going to the moon and collecting rock samples would solve some of these puzzles.

Speaker 13 But when moon rocks were brought back and studied, it only created more questions.

Speaker 13 Since landing on the moon in 1969, there.

Speaker 21 The moon landing was as fake as a teenage Instagram.

Speaker 13 I knew you were going to do this. Look, do you like the idea that the moon is a hollow spaceship?

Speaker 21 Well, yeah, I gotta admit, I do kind of like this idea.

Speaker 13 Okay, so for us to explore this theory, you need to concede that we went to the moon.

Speaker 13 Thank you.

Speaker 21 But those were unmanned missions. The landings were actually filmed in a studio in Burbank, California.

Speaker 13 Fine, I'll take what I can get.

Speaker 13 Moon rocks and soil samples brought back from the moon are strange. On Earth, the newest rocks are are at the surface, and the rock gets older as you go deeper.
Now, this is obvious and logical.

Speaker 13 But on the moon, the soil on the surface is older than the rocks underneath, and the surface rocks are older than the rock underneath them. It's backwards.

Speaker 13 The only way this happens on Earth is when we drill, dig, and mine, bringing older material to the surface. But we see this all over the moon.

Speaker 13 Now, if the moon was somehow hollowed out, older rock would be on top. But the list of anomalies goes on.

Speaker 13 Typical planetary structures have denser materials toward the core and lighter materials toward the surface. On the moon, this too is reversed and no one could really explain why.

Speaker 13 The moon's surface is pockmarked by asteroid impacts that have happened for billions of years. So you would expect the rock around the impact craters to be different ages.

Speaker 13 But there is a strange uniformity in the age of these rocks. The chemical makeup of lunar dust is also very odd.

Speaker 13 If lunar dust is the result of billions of years of impacts, why does it have a different chemical makeup of the rocks around it?

Speaker 13 The moon doesn't have a magnetic field, yet moon rocks are strongly magnetized. The Earth is 4.6 billion years old, but the oldest rocks we found are much younger than that.

Speaker 13 Moon rocks are older, much older. Some rocks have been dated to the very beginning of the solar system, and some are said to be even older than that.

Speaker 13 Uranium-236 and Neptunium-237 are found on the moon. This is notable because those radioactive elements don't occur naturally.
The only way we see those isotopes on Earth is if we create them.

Speaker 13 Titanium, chromium, and zirconium are rare on Earth, but these are found in abundance on the Moon. If the Earth and Moon were formed together, why such a big discrepancy?

Speaker 13 And those metals happen to be some of the most strongest materials that are known to exist, and they're highly resistant to corrosion.

Speaker 13 If you wanted to reinforce a structure, these are the metals you would use. This structural reinforcement could explain why moon craters all seem to be the same depth, no matter how wide they are.

Speaker 13 Shouldn't craters of different sizes be of different depths? It's as if there's a resilient metallic shell just beneath the surface of the moon, preventing anything from penetrating further.

Speaker 13 Now, if there were some type of instruments on the moon's surface that could detect seismic activity, we could test the hollow moon theory by intentionally colliding objects with the moon.

Speaker 21 This sounds like a setup. We did this, didn't we?

Speaker 13 We did.

Speaker 21 And is it hollow?

Speaker 13 Well, heyo!

Speaker 13 After returning to the command module, the Apollo 12 crew intentionally released the lunar lander, crashing it into the moon's surface. Then something very unexpected happened.

Speaker 13 Seismic measurements showed that the moon rang like a bell and reverberated for more than an hour.

Speaker 13 This was with a very small object compared to the size of the moon, so during Apollo 13, an even heavier object was crashed into the surface.

Speaker 13 This time, the moon rang for over three hours and vibrations traveled to a depth of 20 miles. This doesn't happen on Earth.
Reverberations last only a few minutes because of the Earth's density.

Speaker 13 And on Earth, vibrations slow down as they move toward the Earth's center, where material is denser.

Speaker 13 But the vibrations on the moon actually got faster around around 40 miles down, indicating the interior of the moon is not only far less dense, but perhaps has large hollow cavities.

Speaker 13 The density of the moon is something that's difficult to explain. The moon is about 25% the size of the Earth, but it's only about 1% of the Earth's density.

Speaker 13 If the Moon were a hollow shell, this would explain that. Besides the density issue, the moon has a lot of characteristics and coincidences that we don't see anywhere else.

Speaker 13 The moon is actually more like a planet than a moon. At one quarter the Earth's size, no other object in the solar system has a moon this large.

Speaker 13 This occurs nowhere else, not in our solar system or any other solar system that we found. And the moon orbits much more closely than it should.
And its orbit is also a mystery.

Speaker 13 It's the only object we've ever observed with a near perfectly circular orbit. We don't see this anywhere else either.

Speaker 13 Because of this near perfect orbit and its size and distance from the Earth, the moon appears in the sky as almost the exact same size as the Sun. This is what allows us to have eclipses.

Speaker 13 Our distance to the Sun is 400 times our distance to the Moon, and the size of the Sun is 400 times the size of the Moon. Could this be a coincidence?

Speaker 13 Well, when enough coincidences pile up, we may have to adjust our thinking and be a little more open-minded. And that's what happened in 1970.

Speaker 13 Two Soviet scientists looked at all the evidence and all these coincidences and came to what they felt was the only logical conclusion.

Speaker 13 And they agreed that their theory sounded crazy, but said, not only is the moon hollow, but it's also a spacecraft that traveled here in the distant past. So now we have to ask: who built the moon?

Speaker 13 Every ancient culture on Earth has stories about the moon. But it's interesting that the further back you go, the fewer stories there are.

Speaker 13 And if you go back far enough, there are stories that talk about a sky before the moon arrived.

Speaker 13 Roman and Greek authors in the 5th century BC have stories about the Prosellenes, and they lived in an area called Arcadia.

Speaker 13 And they said they've been here since before there was a moon in the heavens.

Speaker 13 Now, on the other side of the world, the ancient culture of Tiwanaca in Bolivia also refers to a time when there was no moon. The Tuanaka claim the moon arrived between 11,500 and 13,000 years ago.

Speaker 13 If you're into ancient theories as much as I am, you'll recognize that this time coincides perfectly with a period called the Younger Dryas.

Speaker 13 And all kinds of myths and mysteries are said to have happened during the Younger Dryas. And we'll cover them on this channel.

Speaker 13 Now going back to Africa, there are Zulu legends that specifically say the moon is hollow. And living inside is an intelligent race of reptilian extraterrestrials.
Lizard people?

Speaker 13 Yup.

Speaker 21 Lizard people built the moon.

Speaker 13 That's what they believe.

Speaker 21 Lizard people are very industrious.

Speaker 13 They seem to be. The Zulu believe the moon was put into orbit by two brothers who were gods.
And this legend is similar to what the Sumerians believed.

Speaker 13 The Sumerians also had a legend of two brothers, Enki and Enlil, who were called Anunnaki. Yup.
Anunnaki. the extraterrestrial gods who created mankind.

Speaker 21 Everything is falling into place with this one.

Speaker 13 Oh, you ain't seen nothing yet. How about this? The Zulu also believed that before the moon arrived, the climate of the Earth was very different.

Speaker 13 There were no seasons and a blanket of thick water vapor covered the entire planet. And we now know that the moon does stabilize our climate.
Without the moon's gravity, the Earth's axis would wobble.

Speaker 13 There would be no consistent seasons, no tides, extreme weather. The presence of the moon is what allows life on Earth to thrive.
So back to the Zulu.

Speaker 13 The Earth was covered by a thick layer of water vapor, and you could only see the sun through this hazy mist.

Speaker 13 When the moon was finally placed into orbit, all this water vapor fell at once and it created a cataclysmic global flood.

Speaker 21 Always a flood.

Speaker 13 Always, every time. Every ancient culture has a flood myth, and there's mounting evidence that this did indeed happen during the Younger Dryas.

Speaker 13 Cultures around the world have myths that are in perfect sync with each other. The coincidences keep piling up.

Speaker 13 The Zulu legend talks about how the arrival of the moon changed the tides and stabilized the climate. And this is something that wasn't understood by science until the past hundred years.

Speaker 13 Yet somehow the ancient Zulu were able to make the connection between the moon and the tides and the seasons.

Speaker 13 All of these myths and legends, plus strange coincidences and anomalies about the moon, start to add up to a compelling theory that the moon is hollow, is artificial, and was placed here by intelligent beings long ago.

Speaker 13 But coincidences aren't proof. And myths aren't proof.
We need to know what's been happening on the moon lately to see if we can make our case with hard evidence. Lucky for us, the evidence is there.

Speaker 13 Science tells us that the moon is a cold, lifeless place. It has no atmosphere.
There hasn't been seismic activity for millions of years. Its core, unlike the Earth's, is cold.

Speaker 13 For a supposedly dead world, there's an awful lot of activity up there.

Speaker 13 On March 7th, 1971, a cloud of water vapor appeared on the moon that covered 100 square miles, and it was there for 14 hours before it dissipated.

Speaker 13 There's not supposed to be atmosphere on the moon, but for those 14 hours, there was.

Speaker 13 In fact, six astronomers in the past 100 years have documented a glowing mist in the crater named Plato, the same mist, the same crater, over many years.

Speaker 13 Boulder tracks are seen on the moon, all over the place. And that's weird enough, but how do boulders roll for miles and then go uphill like in this photo?

Speaker 13 And since the days of Aristotle, astronomers have seen strange lights appear on the surface of the moon, sometimes visible with the naked eye.

Speaker 13 NASA even reported that between the years 1540 and 1967, there were 570 sightings of light flashes on the moon that couldn't be explained. Sightings of strange lights continue to this day.

Speaker 13 The Aristarchus crater was photographed in 1992 and it shows a glowing blue light now called the Blue Gem. And this anomaly has been seen by Earth-based telescopes every few years since.

Speaker 13 Some have even speculated it's a fusion reactor. And these events of mysterious light and mist happen so frequently that there's even a name for them, transient lunar phenomena, or TLPs.

Speaker 13 But things get even more weird. There are plenty of photographs of what appear to be artificial objects on the surface of the moon.

Speaker 13 Towers that reach several miles high, pyramids, symmetrical structures. These have been photographed by astronomers, probes, even the astronauts themselves.
And the biggest anomaly of all?

Speaker 13 Why haven't we gone back to the moon? Sergeant Carl Wolf was working as a technician for the Air Force, and he was repairing equipment that transferred images from a lunar satellite.

Speaker 13 Those photos, according to Sergeant Wolf, showed artificial structures on the moon, what he described as a base. And this is corroborated by another technician working with Wolf.

Speaker 13 And Wolf wasn't a UFO ET moon theory guy. He was just a tech.
He said he was excited to see the pictures on the news and have NASA explain what they were.

Speaker 13 He was surprised when the photos never turned up. The photos were found in a very early release from NASA.
These structures are very large and very tall. You can even see they cast shadows.

Speaker 13 And these are photos I'd like to learn more about. But I can't.
They no longer exist. Now, almost immediately after landing on the moon, the Apollo 11 crew said they saw something that shook them up.

Speaker 13 Watch the press conference they gave when they returned. These men aren't acting like they made history or had a life-changing experience.

Speaker 13 It's a beginning of

Speaker 23 a new age.

Speaker 13 They look sad, frightened, uncomfortable, even depressed. Why? Is there a reason we haven't returned to the moon?

Speaker 13 And could it be that the Apollo missions discovered something that ancient cultures knew centuries ago? Something that reputable scientists believe is the only answer to this list of mysteries.

Speaker 13 That the moon is not what it seems or what we've been told. The moon is hollow, artificially constructed, and appeared in Earth's orbit from somewhere else, far away.

Speaker 21 Yeah, makes sense to me.

Speaker 13 Does it make sense to you?

Speaker 13 So what can science explain about the hollow moon spaceship theory? Well, the formation of the moon is still unknown, so score theory one, science zero.

Speaker 13 The density problem is said to be because after the giant impact, the Earth's upper mantle formed the moon. The mantle is much less dense than the core.

Speaker 13 Okay, the problem with this is the giant impact theory probably isn't what happened. And the theory about the Earth and the moon forming out of that big donut shape?

Speaker 21 In geometry, that's called a Taurus.

Speaker 13 Taurus?

Speaker 13 Well, that wouldn't explain the density discrepancy. We're told the moon ringing like a bell is because the moon is much less dense, and the moon's rock has much less water.

Speaker 13 So vibrations reverberate longer and farther. This can't be proven, but okay.
The perfect eclipses? Well, here's where science wins. The eclipses aren't exact.
They're close, but not perfect.

Speaker 13 Besides, the moon is drifting farther away from the Earth every year, so eclipses are becoming less and less less perfect all the time.

Speaker 13 And whether the moon arrived 14,000 years ago or was formed billions of years ago, it was much closer to the Earth, so it was much larger in the sky.

Speaker 13 Now, NASA claims that we know the moon isn't hollow because of seismic observations. And that's fair, but it's still conjecture.

Speaker 13 Look, we don't know for sure what's at the center of the Earth, much less what's at the center of the moon. If there's anything at all.
Right.

Speaker 13 Now the structures are said to be shadows or optical illusions. Nope.
And the lights are from meteor impacts or reflections from glassy patches on the surface. Nope.
But the bottom line is this.

Speaker 13 Yes, the hollow moon spaceship theory is a wild one. I admit that.
And many of the anomalies found on the moon can be explained.

Speaker 13 The explanations aren't perfect, but they're enough to satisfy skeptics. And I consider myself a skeptic, but I'm open-minded.
I just want to know the truth.

Speaker 13 And when I started researching this story, I thought it would be a fun ride, a pure tinfoil hat experience that we could button up with science. That's not what happened.

Speaker 13 There's just so much unknown and unexplainable that something doesn't feel right about what we've been told about the moon.

Speaker 13 But as always, the space agencies and the governments they serve are very selective about the images and information they release. So I have a message for them.

Speaker 13 For NASA, the European Space Agency, Russia, China, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and anyone with the resources to put people back on the moon. The message is this.

Speaker 13 If you want us to believe your explanations, you're going to have to prove it.

Speaker 13 I told you, the moon is weird. And now that more countries are going there, things are going to get interesting.
Next up is a change of pace. True crime.
This is a true crime story.

Speaker 13 I'm looking at my notes, but it fits the channel. So imagine this, small town in Ohio.
You start receiving letters, crazy handwritten letters in the mail.

Speaker 13 And these letters, written in like the scrawlings of a madman, know all your intimate secrets, things that nobody knows. Not your spouse, nobody.

Speaker 13 And the thing is, these letters start going to everybody. Everyone in the neighborhood is getting these crazy letters with all their secrets.

Speaker 13 And then the letters start revealing secrets to the other neighbors.

Speaker 13 It.

Speaker 13 It... It's dramatic.
And people's lives were destroyed over this.

Speaker 13 And

Speaker 13 a couple of lives were lost because of this.

Speaker 13 This story is the Circleville Letters.

Speaker 13 This is a mystery that's gone on for decades and it's still unsolved.

Speaker 13 We all keep secrets. For most of us, these are nothing more than minor embarrassing details about ourselves.
But some of us have dark secrets, which, if discovered, could destroy lives.

Speaker 13 For years, the residents of Circleville, Ohio received bizarre, threatening letters from someone who somehow knew every salacious detail of their personal lives.

Speaker 13 The letters cost people their jobs, their marriages, their freedom, and sometimes their lives. Over a thousand letters were sent over 20 years, yet somehow whoever wrote them got away with it.

Speaker 13 Let's find out why.

Speaker 13 Circleville, Ohio is about 25 miles south of Columbus. In the late 70s, it was the typical small American rural town.

Speaker 13 With a population of 13,000, Circleville has been described using clichés like nobody locks their doors and everybody knows everybody. A problem with small towns is that It's hard to keep secrets.

Speaker 13 This story begins in 1976.

Speaker 13 Circleville residents started receiving anonymous letters, postmarked from Columbus, handwritten in strange block letters, and the letters were full of details of their private lives.

Speaker 13 There was never a return address, but the writer was clearly someone with intimate knowledge of the town's residents and their secrets.

Speaker 13 Gordon Massey was the superintendent of Westfall Schools in Circleville. When he got to work on the morning of March 3, 1977, There was a letter waiting for him.

Speaker 13 Dear sir, according to my GF, you have asked her to go out many times

Speaker 13 And more letters followed, each with escalating threats. One even said they would cut the brake line in his car if he didn't stop sleeping with his employees.

Speaker 13 That same day, a letter arrived for the school board describing how Massey approached, assaulted, and sometimes carried on extramarital affairs with the female bus drivers.

Speaker 13 The writer demanded Massey be fired. He wasn't.
He denied everything, and there was no proof of any wrongdoing. But a couple of weeks later, the school's vice principal received a letter.

Speaker 13 Your school, talk to Gordon Massey about his affairs. I shall warn you, I know the truth.
I want to protect your school.

Speaker 81 It has a good reputation. You should keep it like that.

Speaker 80 I shall send you proof about driver number 62917.

Speaker 80 She has a child in school there now.

Speaker 81 I shall prove this shortly. I expect him then to be discharged.
You'll see that I am telling the truth.

Speaker 13 That letter was oddly specific. Though he didn't name anyone, he used an employee number.
Only someone with intimate knowledge of the school and its employees would have that information.

Speaker 13 They looked up the number 62917. It belonged to bus driver Mary Gillespie.

Speaker 13 Mary Gillespie was not someone you'd suspect of a scandal. She had a nice group of friends and a close family who lived nearby.

Speaker 13 And according to everyone who knew her, Mary was a good friend, an attentive mother to her two children, and a loving wife to her husband Ron. Mary led a quiet life.

Speaker 13 But that would all change in March 1977. Mary opened her mailbox and found a strange anonymous letter, handwritten in eerie block letters.

Speaker 13 This is upsetting, but rather than tell her husband Ron, she kept this to herself.

Speaker 13 And over the next few weeks, more and more letters came in, and each one was more threatening than the last, and each revealing more personal information.

Speaker 13 The writer obviously knew where she lived, but also what bus she drove and the names of her husband and her children. Still, she ignored the letters.
So the writer raised the stakes.

Speaker 13 He wrote directly to Mary's husband, Ronnie Gillespie. The circle of the letter was gaining confidence.

Speaker 13 The letter to Ron described his wife's affair with Massey and threatened to kill him if he did nothing about it.

Speaker 13 The writer claimed to know where Ron worked and described his vehicle, a red and white pickup truck. Ron and Mary were definitely being watched.

Speaker 13 And when Ron confronted Mary about the letter, she denied having an affair with Gordon Massey, but she admitted she'd been receiving similar letters for a few weeks.

Speaker 13 They decided once again to ignore them. But two weeks later, Ron received another.
The letter writer had now changed the handwriting to be even blockier, probably to make it harder to trace.

Speaker 13 And this letter informed Ron that he knew that he had done nothing about Mary's affair with Massey.

Speaker 13 And if she didn't admit the truth, the writer threatened to put up signs and billboards and broadcast the truth on CB. CB? Radio? Yeah, the the buses communicated with each other with CB.

Speaker 21 Wow, CB takes me back.

Speaker 13 It does?

Speaker 21 Oh, yeah, I used to drive truck in the 80s.

Speaker 13 Really?

Speaker 21 This is Hecklevish of the Pork Shop Express, and I'm talking to whoever's listening out there. It's like I told my last wife: I says, Honey, I never drive faster than I can see.

Speaker 21 Besides that, it's all in the reflexes.

Speaker 13 That was a good one. Anyway, besides the letters, Mary and Ron started getting phone calls from the person they believed was writing them.

Speaker 13 They didn't know what to do or who to tell about the threatening letters and calls, so they went to the people they trusted the most, their family. This turned out to be a huge mistake.

Speaker 13 To fight back against the anonymous letter writer, Ron and Mary Gillespie enlisted the help of Ron's sister and her husband, Karen and Paul Freshauer. They put together a list of suspects.

Speaker 13 From the beginning, Mary suspected another school bus driver named David Longberry. David made a few passes at her and became resentful when she rejected him.

Speaker 13 So they decided that Paul Freshauer would write to David Longberry. In their letters, they told David that they knew what he was doing and threatened to go to the police if he didn't stop immediately.

Speaker 21 Did the letters stop?

Speaker 13 They stopped, and everyone's life went back to normal. Oh boy.
What?

Speaker 21 This is the part where you say everything was fine and tall.

Speaker 13 In August 1977, the letters and phone calls had stopped. But now, signs appeared.
Suddenly, Ron and Mary began seeing signs posted all over the town written in the same crude block letters.

Speaker 13 They accused Gordon Massey of having an affair with Mary. Some even accused Massey of having an affair with Mary's daughter, Tracy.
who is only 12 years old.

Speaker 21 Yeah, this isn't cute anymore. I hate this guy.

Speaker 13 I get it. So did Ron and Mary.

Speaker 13 In fact, every morning, Ron would get up early and drive around town, removing all the signs he could find so his wife and daughter wouldn't see them on their way to school. But things get worse.

Speaker 13 Mary Gillespie went out of town to clear her head. Ron stayed home in Circleville with the kids.
On the evening of Friday, August 19th, the Gillespie's home phone rang.

Speaker 13 The caller said he was watching the Gillespie house and he knew what Ron's truck looked like. This set Ron off.

Speaker 13 He started ranting that he recognized the voice as the letter writer and was finally going to put a stop to this.

Speaker 13 So he grabbed his pistol, kissed his daughter goodbye, hopped in his red and white pickup, and tore out into the night.

Speaker 21 Did he find the guy?

Speaker 13 Ron Gillespie never made it home. Oh, no.

Speaker 13 Around 10.25 p.m., just a few minutes after Ron Gillespie left his house on his way to confront the letterwriter, his red and white 1971 Ford pickup crashed into a tree.

Speaker 13 Though just a few miles away from his house on familiar roads, Ron apparently failed to make a turn. He was partially thrown from the truck and declared dead on arrival at the hospital.

Speaker 13 When Pickaway County Sheriff Dwight Radcliffe arrived at the scene, something looked strange.

Speaker 13 A bullet had been fired from Ron's gun, but there was no bullet hole anywhere and no actual bullet, just an empty casing. The Gillespie family was convinced this was no accident.

Speaker 13 They believed Ron had caught up with the letter writer, took took a shot at him, and lost control of his truck while in pursuit. Or they thought maybe Ron was run off the road.

Speaker 13 But an autopsy showed Ron's blood alcohol level was 0.16, twice the legal limit. As far as the sheriff was concerned, this was the answer.

Speaker 13 Ron had too much to drink, left the house in a rage, and lost control of his vehicle. Case closed.
The Gillespie family wasn't having it.

Speaker 13 Ron wasn't much of a drinker, and he wouldn't leave his kids in the house alone unless he was dealing with something urgent. They wanted the sheriff to investigate further, but he wouldn't.

Speaker 13 Sheriff Radcliffe called the whole thing an accident. Ron's family demanded to look at the truck, but they couldn't.
It was sent to a junkyard and crushed just days after the incident.

Speaker 13 It was later learned that there was a suspect in custody, but they passed the polygraph test. It's assumed the suspect was David Longbury, but his name was never released.

Speaker 13 The town now had more questions than answers. Why did the sheriff suddenly change his mind? Who is the suspect? Why was the car quickly disposed of? And why is the sheriff refusing to investigate?

Speaker 13 The town of Circleville now had a conspiracy on its hands, and the letters kept coming. Now people were receiving letters claiming the sheriff was covering up the truth.

Speaker 13 Nobody was more vocal about this than Paul Freshauer, Ron's brother-in-law. But Sheriff Radcliffe wouldn't budge.
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Speaker 13 Two years after the death of her husband Ron, Mary Gillespie finally admitted to having a relationship with Gordon Massey. What? But, but, but, but, but.

Speaker 13 But she said the affair started in 1979 after receiving the letters. Oh, come on.

Speaker 13 She said the stress and the trauma brought them together.

Speaker 21 Look, I ain't buying whatever she's shoveling.

Speaker 13 Hey, that's what she said.

Speaker 21 Well, she did the time, might as well do the crime, eh?

Speaker 13 That's one way of looking at it. Mary hoped that finally being open about her relationship with Gordon Massey, the letters would stop.

Speaker 21 They didn't stop, did they?

Speaker 13 They kept coming. Over the next seven years, Mary Gillespie received almost 40 letters.
She was called a cheater, a homewrecker, a murderer. Some letters threatened the lives of her children.

Speaker 13 The signs continued, too. Graphic images and vulgar language about her were posted all over town, specifically placed on her bus route so she and her children would see them.
In 1983, Mary had enough.

Speaker 13 She was driving her school bus near the intersection where her husband Ron died a few years earlier.

Speaker 13 There, she saw a sign posted that talked about Massey and an inappropriate relationship with Mary's daughter, using very obscene language. She stopped the bus and went to grab the sign.

Speaker 13 Then, she noticed a piece of string connecting the sign to a box about the size of a shoebox. And inside the box was a handgun propped up by styrofoam blocks.

Speaker 13 And the string was connected to the trigger. When the police examined it, they told her the gun was loaded and set to fire.

Speaker 13 If Mary had pulled on the sign by standing in front of it, she would have been shot in the face or chest point blank. The Circleville letter writer was no longer just a nuisance.

Speaker 13 He wanted to trade ink for blood. But whose gun was this? Don't tell me.

Speaker 21 The serial number was filed off.

Speaker 13 It was. But one of the forensics technicians was able to recover it.
The gun belonged to a man named Wes Wesley.

Speaker 21 Who the hell is Wes Wesley?

Speaker 13 Wesley worked at Anheuser-Busch in Columbus. When police asked them about the gun, he said yes, it was his, but he recently sold it to his supervisor at work.
Who was his supervisor? Paul Freshauer.

Speaker 13 What?

Speaker 13 So, the gun belonged to Paul Freshauer, the man who kept trying to find answers to Mary's husband's death. The man Mary and Ron first went to to help with the letter writer.

Speaker 13 When the police questioned Ron Freshauer about the gun, he freely admitted that it was his, but it had been stolen a few weeks earlier.

Speaker 13 He just forgot to report it.

Speaker 13 According to company records, Paul had taken the day off the day the trap was placed, but he had an alibi. Still, the sheriff brought him in for questioning.

Speaker 13 Paul insisted he was being framed, and the letter writer was behind everything.

Speaker 13 And if the sheriff had done his job and caught whoever was writing the letters, Mary would have never been in danger and Ron would still be alive.

Speaker 13 Well, the sheriff showed Paul Freshauer a few of the Sergeyville letters. He asked Paul to copy them as best as he could, which he did.

Speaker 13 He then asked Paul to write a few sentences using that same handwriting if he could. So Paul did.

Speaker 13 The sheriff looked at what Paul had written and claimed this was a perfect match and placed Paul Freshauer under arrest for the attempted murder of Mary Gillespie.

Speaker 30 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What?

Speaker 21 The sheriff told him to copy the letters?

Speaker 13 Yep.

Speaker 21 And that's how the handwriting matched?

Speaker 13 Uh-huh.

Speaker 21 Now, any judge would throw that evidence right out.

Speaker 13 Well, Paul Freshauer was found guilty and sentenced to 7 to 25 years in prison. What?

Speaker 21 That's some sloppy police work, but at least they finally got the guy.

Speaker 13 And while Freshauer was in prison,

Speaker 13 the letters kept coming. Oh no!

Speaker 13 While in prison, Paul Freshauer continued to claim that he was innocent. He was imprisoned in Lima, Ohio, over 100 miles from Circleville.
Yet somehow the letters kept coming.

Speaker 13 And like always, they were anonymous, written in that weird, blocky handwriting, and postmarked Columbus, Ohio. By now, the letters were going all over central Ohio, not just Circleville.

Speaker 13 The prosecutor in Paul's case was accused of corruption. The coroner who did Ron Gillespie's autopsy was accused of child abuse, which actually turned out to be true.

Speaker 13 So who knows, maybe there was a cover-up. Over a thousand letters went out, and some were even dusted with poison.
Sheriff Radcliffe demanded that the warden get Paul Freshauer under control.

Speaker 13 The warden insisted there was no way Paul could be writing these. Not even putting Paul in solitary confinement stopped the letters.

Speaker 13 So in 1990, after being in jail for seven years, Paul Freschauer was up for parole. The parole board said that his ongoing campaign of hate mail proves he's not ready to enter society.

Speaker 13 The warden even spoke up for Paul and said he was a model prisoner and absolutely could not be writing the letters. Still, his parole was denied.

Speaker 13 And shortly after that, Paul received a letter of his own.

Speaker 80 The joke is on you. Ha ha.

Speaker 80 Tell no one of this letter.

Speaker 81 I saw the paper. Great news.
Great. The sheriff loved it.
Haha. Do you believe it now?

Speaker 30 Do you?

Speaker 21 Wait, wait,

Speaker 13 Yeah, it did. Interesting.
Isn't it? They finally released Paul Freshauer from prison in 1993 after 10 years. He proclaimed his innocence until his death in 2012.

Speaker 13 Around the same time Paul was released from prison, the Circleville Letters stopped, and there hasn't been one since. When Paul Freshauer was arrested, this case was officially closed.

Speaker 13 But there were so many unanswered questions that even after all these years, the case is still fascinating.

Speaker 13 Every major true crime TV show, blog, and podcast have covered the Circle of the Letters case. Even the show Unsolved Mysteries did two episodes on it.

Speaker 13 In 2021, the CVS program 48 Hours had two FBI experts examine the letters. One said Paul definitely wrote them.
The other said Paul definitely didn't write them.

Speaker 13 So let's look at the evidence and see if we can figure out who done it.

Speaker 13 There are a few theories. Here are the primary suspects.
Some think the answer is simple. Paul Freshauer did it.
It was his gun, his handwriting, that's it.

Speaker 13 Now, could Paul have sent hundreds of letters from prison unnoticed, all postmarked Columbus, Ohio, over 100 miles away? Nope.

Speaker 13 Sure, I guess it's possible. Nope.
Some think it was David Longberry, the bus driver who made a pass at Mary, who rejected him. Longberry was troubled.

Speaker 13 He got caught abusing a young girl and left town in 1993 to avoid prosecution. It was around this time that the letter stopped.

Speaker 13 But there was a large group of people, including professional investigators like Martin Yant, who think Paul's wife Karen deserves a closer look.

Speaker 13 While all this was going on, Paul and Karen Freshauer were going through an ugly divorce. Really, really nasty.

Speaker 13 When Martin Yant was investigating the case, He said he'd never seen someone hate another person as much as Karen hated her ex-husband Paul Freshauer.

Speaker 13 Yant discovered a witness that could have possibly exonerated Paul, and she made herself available to the defense but was never called. She was also a bus driver who had the same route as Mary.

Speaker 13 About 20 minutes before Mary found the trap, this witness says she saw a tall man with sandy brown hair near the sign and parked next to the sign was a yellow El Camino.

Speaker 21 Why is this important?

Speaker 13 Well, first of all, Paul was short with dark hair. But at the time, Karen Freshauer was dating someone, and he was described as tall with sandy brown hair.

Speaker 21 Any chance Karen's boyfriend had an El Camino?

Speaker 13 No, but Karen's brother did. Oh no! The wife did it! Paul was frightened! Maybe.
Karen had multiple motives. Mary had cheated on her brother Ron, who is now dead.

Speaker 13 And if she could frame Paul for the murder, well, that solves two big problems for Karen. If you read the divorce decree, Paul pretty much got everything.
The house, retirement savings, the kids.

Speaker 13 But if Paul goes to jail, Karen gets everything. In fact, Paul insisted this was her plan all along.
Paul even believed his son Mark stole his gun a few weeks before the incident.

Speaker 13 And Paul didn't report it because he didn't want to see his teenage son go to jail. And Paul's son Mark became severely depressed and took his own life in 2002.

Speaker 13 And some have speculated that he just couldn't deal with the guilt anymore. And Karen testified against Paul that she had found dozens of letters in her home that she claimed Paul wrote.

Speaker 13 When the court asked her to produce those, she said she threw them away. Also, during the divorce proceedings, Karen visited Paul's sister and asked to borrow a typewriter.

Speaker 13 And Paul's sister thought this was an odd request. Yet at about the same time, the Circleville letters were no longer handwritten.
They came typed.

Speaker 13 Martin Yant does not paint a very nice picture of Karen Threshauer, but others come to her defense, saying she was a victim of domestic abuse and that Paul was the culprit all along.

Speaker 21 Okay, so who did it?

Speaker 13 Well, nobody really knows, but I think it started with Gordon Massey's son William and potentially David Longberry.

Speaker 13 The early letters were very specific and contained details that you'd only know or even care about if you worked in the school district.

Speaker 13 Karen and Paul Freshhour knew Mary, but they wouldn't know her employee number.

Speaker 13 And once Mary and Ron Gillespie shared the letters with the Fresh Hours, I think the Fresh Hours found a way to wage an anonymous war against each other while going through their bitter divorce.

Speaker 13 Things quickly got out of control as they tend to do and lots of people got hurt. But I can understand why all the players in this story are portrayed the way they are.

Speaker 13 The story of the Circle of the Letters has so many layers of mystery, it's only natural that if we can't solve the puzzle, let's at least try to put some pieces in place.

Speaker 13 And every good story needs a hero. That's Paul Freshauer, a husband, a father, wrongfully accused and sent to prison.
The villain is Karen, a vindictive wife obsessed with destroying her husband.

Speaker 13 Mary is cast as deceitful and unfaithful, who had an affair that set the entire story in motion.

Speaker 13 Ron is a victim, a man trying to protect his family who had the courage to confront his attacker and whether by accident or not, was killed.

Speaker 13 But the more you look into the story, and I encourage you to do so, there is a ton of material about it, you'll see that each of these characters is not so black and white.

Speaker 13 Everyone is a shade of gray. Now, I have a hard time believing Paul Freshauer was the only letter writer.
But also, he wasn't the saint that a lot of the podcasts claim him to be.

Speaker 13 And Karen isn't as awful as is widely reported. In my opinion, the Circleville mystery has no villains.
It also has no heroes. All this story has is victims.

Speaker 13 And if you want to solve this mystery because of curiosity, I think that's okay. Everyone loves a puzzle.

Speaker 13 But there are some people who want to solve the Circleville letters because they think justice wasn't served and they want someone to pay.

Speaker 13 I'd encourage those people to really think about what these families and the community endured for 20 years.

Speaker 13 And before demanding punishment, they should ask themselves, haven't these people been through enough?

Speaker 13 Now keep an eye out for the what files. That's going to be another channel that we're launching.
That's going to be all true crime. And don't worry, I'm not hosting that.

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Speaker 13 Next video is Operation Mince Meat. This is where a single corpse determined the fate of World War II.

Speaker 13 British intelligence, using nothing more than a dead body and a briefcase full of lies, tried to deceive Hitler. But the consequences of this operation rippled far beyond the 1940s.
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Speaker 13 On April 30th, 1943, in the middle of World War II, a body washed up on the shore of Huelva, Spain. The deceased man was wearing a British military uniform.

Speaker 13 There was a briefcase strapped to his body containing British and American military secrets. The man was Major William Martin, a Royal Marine who was the single victim of a fatal plane crash at sea.

Speaker 13 He had just returned from temporary leave in London where he had gone to the theater and purchased an engagement ring for his fiancée Pam.

Speaker 13 But there was something very strange about Major William Martin. He didn't exist.

Speaker 13 It was the winter of 1942 and the Allies needed a win. Hitler's Nazi war machine had steamrolled all of Europe, and everybody knew England was next.

Speaker 13 The United States had just been dragged into the war by the attack on Pearl Harbor, and American bodies were piling up by the thousands.

Speaker 21 Inside job.

Speaker 13 What?

Speaker 21 Pearl Harbor was an inside job. Didn't you see that image that was going around?

Speaker 13 Show me.

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Speaker 21 How could the planes fly this distance in 1931?

Speaker 13 Uh, you know that was meant as a joke. Eh, maybe.
And you know the Earth is round, right?

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Speaker 13 No, it really is.

Speaker 13 Could be round, could be flat you know who's to say uh science is to say all right science i tried to make air quotes but uh my fins wouldn't bend anyway german forces were better trained better equipped and of singular purpose but germany did have a weakness it's not a country rich in natural resources to wage war in the 1940s you need iron oil rubber and food Germany had to import all of these.

Speaker 13 If the Allies could disrupt Germany's supply lines, the Germans would no longer have the ability to fight and the war could come to a quick close. But that was easier said than done.

Speaker 13 German engineers were among the best in the world. Every time the German army seized an inch of land, it was quickly fortified.

Speaker 13 Any Allied advance on mainland Europe would be repelled and would result in catastrophic losses. But the coastline of the Mediterranean was not as heavily fortified.

Speaker 13 UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill called this the soft underbelly of Europe. The key to taking back Europe was Italy, and the key to taking Italy was Sicily.

Speaker 13 Unfortunately, the Germans understood the strategic importance of Sicily as well. They were fully expecting the Allies to attack it.

Speaker 13 And if the Allies had any hope of winning, they'd need the element of surprise.

Speaker 13 MI5, Britain's intelligence agency, was tasked with tricking the Germans into thinking the Allies would attack Greece instead.

Speaker 13 If the Germans bought the Ruse, they would divert forces from Sicily to Greece, leaving Sicily unprotected and ensuring an easy win for the Allies.

Speaker 13 One of the British intelligence officers working on crafting this deception was Charles Chumley. Hang on.
What?

Speaker 21 Chumley, that's not what it says on the screen.

Speaker 13 Yeah, I know, that's how he pronounced his name. Well, he pronounced it wrong.
Chumley's primary role in the war effort was an ideas guy.

Speaker 13 Charles Chumley remembered a top-secret memo distributed to British wartime intelligence at the beginning of the war. It became known as the Trout Memo because it compared intelligence to fly fishing.

Speaker 21 Why would anyone want to catch flies?

Speaker 13 No, no, fly fishermen try to catch fish.

Speaker 13 Those fishermen.

Speaker 13 The trout memo listed 51 specific ideas for fooling the Germans. The list was pretty wacky.
It included dropping glow-in-the-dark footballs in the water to attract submarines.

Speaker 13 There was one about a fake treasure ship, and there was another about explosives being disguised as food. But the craziest idea in the trout memo was number 28.

Speaker 13 It involved loading up a corpse with phony documents, then dropping the corpse from a plane behind enemy lines.

Speaker 13 And when you read the entire Trout memo, you can't help but think whoever thought of this stuff would be great at writing spy novels.

Speaker 13 The Trout memo officially was written by Rear Admiral John Godfrey, but it was actually written by Godfrey's assistant, Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming, the same Ian Fleming who went on to become a novelist.

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Speaker 13 James Bond. Idea number 28 on Ian Fleming's Trout Memo was titled, A Suggestion and Not a Very Nice One.

Speaker 43 The following suggestion is used in a book by Basil Thompson. A corpse dressed as an airman with dispatches in his pockets could be dropped on the coast, supposedly from a parachute that had failed.

Speaker 43 I understand there is no difficulty in obtaining corpses at the naval hospital, but of course it would have to be a fresh one.

Speaker 13 The idea was so crazy that Chumley thought it might be just the way to fool the Germans into believing the Allies were planning to attack Greece instead of Sicily.

Speaker 13 He presented it to his superiors and they assigned a naval officer named Ewan Montague to help him develop the plan. Before the war, Ewan Montague was a lawyer.

Speaker 13 He came from an extremely wealthy family of bankers. And when the war broke out, he was too old for active service, but found himself rising through the ranks of naval intelligence.

Speaker 21 You know, I've noticed that people from wealthy families tend to rise through the ranks rather quickly.

Speaker 13 Yeah, that does seem to be the case. As it turned out, an inclination inclination for wartime intelligence work ran in the family.

Speaker 13 Ewan didn't know it at the time, but his own brother, Ivor Montague, was actually a spy for the Soviet Union. Uh-oh.

Speaker 13 Well, luckily, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom were fighting this war on the same side.

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Ivor.

Speaker 21 Did he stop spying for the Russians after the war?

Speaker 13 Nah.

Speaker 13 The Montagues were also Jewish, so Ewan's wife and children spent the war in America for safety reasons.

Speaker 13 Ewan wanted in on this unique operation, to serve his country, of course, but also to keep his mind off how much he missed his wife. Chumley and Montague fleshed out the plan for their mission.

Speaker 13 They would deliver a dead body via a submarine just off the coast of Spain.

Speaker 13 The body would be carrying information identifying him as a Royal Marine, and most importantly, falsified documents regarding an upcoming military offensive in Greece.

Speaker 13 Spain was the ideal country to find the body because, though they were officially neutral, they were in close communication with the Germans and if military secrets washed up on the Spanish shores there was a good chance those secrets would end up in the hands of the Germans.

Speaker 13 Chumli and Montague had the plan now they just needed a dead body but not just any dead body it had to be male and of military age the cause of death needed to line up with the story of a plane crash at sea so drowning exposure shock or traumatic injury and the man shouldn't have any pesky family members who might not appreciate their loved one's corpse corpse being dressed up as someone else and taken out of the country.

Speaker 13 Ewan Montague was friendly with a local coroner who agreed to keep an eye out for just such a body.

Speaker 21 Ah, it's good to have a corpse guy.

Speaker 13 It is. And on January 26th, 1943, the coroner called Montague and told him, I got one.

Speaker 13 Glender Michael had a hard life. His father attempted suicide by stabbing himself at the neck with a knife.
He was taken to a mental hospital where he caught influenza and later died.

Speaker 13 His mother struggled to care for the family on her own. They were often homeless and there was never enough food.
Shortly before the war, she died of a heart attack.

Speaker 13 Glender was declared ineligible for military service, though it's not clear why. It could have been for poor physical health, poor mental health, or both.

Speaker 13 He eventually became homeless and wandered the streets of London. On January 26, 1943, Glender Michael consumed rat poison in an abandoned warehouse.

Speaker 13 It could have been suicide, but most likely he was starving and found some bread. The bread had been laced with rat poison and Glender died two days later.
Death by rat poison is a rough way to go.

Speaker 13 But considering the forensic technology available at the time, dying from rat poisoning could pass for drowning. Chum Leon Montague now had a body.
Not for long though.

Speaker 13 Montague's coroner buddy, Corpse Guy, is corpse guy stressed that Glender's body was already starting to decompose. He could keep him on ice, but he needed to be deployed within the next three months.

Speaker 13 At this point, Chumlia Montague's mission had also been given an official codename, Operation Mincemeat. And this was a dark joke.

Speaker 13 Mincemeat is a recipe combining chopped meat or animal fat with fruit and spices and whatever you've got lying around.

Speaker 13 And when those things you've got lying around include sugar and alcohol, it's a good way to preserve meat. At this time in the UK, people needed to preserve meat to make their rations last longer.

Speaker 13 But this time, the meat was a man.

Speaker 13 It turned out that acquiring a highly specific dead body was the easy part.

Speaker 21 It's good to have a co-ops guy.

Speaker 13 Now, Montague and Chumley needed to create a new identity from thin air, and it had to stand up to German scrutiny.

Speaker 13 He needed to be a military officer if it was going to be believable that he had possession of sensitive documents. They chose the Royal Marines because it was a common uniform and easy to get.

Speaker 13 To avoid the uniform looking too new, Chumley wore it every day for the next three months. Now they needed a name.

Speaker 13 Montague and Chumley looked through the list of servicemen and found several Royal Marines named William Martin who were around the rank of captain.

Speaker 13 The Germans likely had access to the same list of names, but not their postings. So Montague and Chumley borrowed the name.
The fictional William Martin also needed identification.

Speaker 13 Royal Marines carried ID cards on them at all times that included a picture. Montague and Chumley attempted to photograph the dead body, but this was unsuccessful.

Speaker 21 They couldn't pull a weekend at Bernie's.

Speaker 13 Well, they tried, but the body was in rough shape and getting worse. The pictures were frightening.

Speaker 13 But working in another department was a man who looked similar to Glender Michael, and he was willing to be photographed. Montague and Chumley borrowed his face.

Speaker 13 There was one more thing they needed, but this one they wouldn't be able to give back. Underwear.
A British military officer at the time would have been wearing underwear.

Speaker 13 Underwear was rationed in the UK at the time, meaning you couldn't find it in a store and no one was giving theirs up.

Speaker 21 Ah, and this is where the expression, go in commando, commando, comes from.

Speaker 13 I don't think that's right.

Speaker 13 Well, Montague presented this predicament to one of his superiors, and it just so happened that one of his superiors' academic enemies had recently been run over by a truck.

Speaker 13 He was delighted to acquire his former colleague's underwear for Operation Mincemeat. Montague and Chumley now turned their attention from the physical to the fictional.

Speaker 13 They needed a backstory for Major William Martin. Every night they would go out with a few of their colleagues and fill in details on William Martin's backstory.

Speaker 13 He liked fishing and was bad with money. He was romantic and secretly wanted to be a writer.
The team came to view Major William Martin as a friend.

Speaker 13 The backstory they created would be told to the Spanish who found the body and hopefully the Germans they showed it to in the form of pocket litter.

Speaker 13 Pocket litter is the term for the random stuff people carry in their pockets. For the fictional William Martin, that included his falsified military ID card.

Speaker 13 the military documents hinting at the Allied plans to invade Greece, ticket stubs from the theater, a receipt for an engagement ring, an overdraft letter from the bank, and a photograph and love letter from his fiancée Pam.

Speaker 13 Jean Leslie, a secretary working at the agency, agreed to provide a photograph. Jean now became Major Martin's fiancée Pam.
And here's where things get a little awkward.

Speaker 13 Ewan and Jean began spending a lot of time together. They went dancing, they went to the movies, but not as themselves, not as Ewan and Jean, as William and Pam.

Speaker 13 They may have been playing characters, but the romance was real enough that Montague's own mother wrote to his wife suggesting she come back to the UK as soon as she could.

Speaker 13 But there was one last very important letter to be written. The military communication from a general revealing the supposed joint American and British attack on Greece.

Speaker 13 The work on this letter took over a month. And after many drafts were written by an increasingly frustrated Ewan Montague, they just had the general write the letter himself.

Speaker 21 Nobody likes getting notes.

Speaker 13 That's true. And in the letter was placed a single eyelash.

Speaker 21 Eyelash.

Speaker 13 Yep, the British needed to know if the letter was opened. If the plan worked, they'd have the documents returned to them.
If the eyelash was missing, that means someone opened the letter.

Speaker 13 But the month of rewrites was a problem, considering the three-month window given to Operation Mincemeat by the coroner.

Speaker 13 They needed to get Glinder Michael, the photo of Gene, the worn uniform, the love letters, the dead academic's underwear, the all-important military document, and the pocket litter to Spain.

Speaker 13 And they needed to do it fast. Because Acting Major William Martin was starting to rot.

Speaker 13 At this time, MI5 employed one of the UK's most famous race car drivers.

Speaker 13 During the war, Jack Horsefall had been recruited by British intelligence to provide transportation for its agents when they needed to get somewhere and get out of somewhere fast.

Speaker 13 In this case, he needed to transport Ewan Montague, Charles Chumley, and a secret package from England to Scotland, where Ewan and Charles would meet a submarine that would deliver Major William Martin to a specific location off the coast of Spain.

Speaker 13 Glender Michael's body had been placed in a special container that was created for this exact purpose. It was essentially a thin coffin packed with dry ice.

Speaker 13 This would help keep the body cold to slow down the decomposition process and help keep it secret. It would also save the submarine's crew from being trapped in a small space with a very bad smell.

Speaker 13 They decided to travel overnight to risk being seen, but the UK was under a strict blackout at the time.

Speaker 13 Every night, entire cities went dark to make them harder for German bombers to identify from overhead. This meant all streetlights were out and all vehicle headlights had to be covered.

Speaker 13 So Montague and Chumley were going to be driven at high speed by a race car driver in pitch darkness. And by the way, Jack Horsefall was legally blind and refused to wear glasses.

Speaker 13 What kind of a bit is well maybe or stupid? Horsefall wouldn't wear glasses because he was always very well dressed. He liked martinis and was famous for driving an Aston Martin.
Just like James Bond.

Speaker 82 You'll be using this Aston Martin DB5 with modifications.

Speaker 71 Now pay attention, please.

Speaker 13 James Bond was a composite character based on real people that Ian Fleming knew, including Jack Horsfall.

Speaker 13 The overnight road trip from England to Scotland was crazy and included a couple of close calls, but they made it to Scotland on time.

Speaker 13 In Scotland, they met the crew of the submarine HMS Serif and loaded in their suspiciously large container, which was labeled optical instruments.

Speaker 13 In the early morning hours of April 30th, 1943, the submarine reached its destination.

Speaker 13 The officers aboard the HMS Serif performed a brief funeral service for Glender Michael, then placed his body with the briefcase attached into the water.

Speaker 13 Then the sub was positioned in a way that the propellers could be used to propel the body toward the shore. They gunned the engine and the body was on its way.

Speaker 13 Their final task was to sink the body's container, and this turned out to be one of the biggest hurdles Operation Mincemeat faced.

Speaker 13 Part of the special container's cooling system included air pockets, and so when placed in the water, it floated. They tried shooting at it, but it still wouldn't sink.

Speaker 13 And if they couldn't sink it, this would be a big problem. Imagine a strange coffin riddled with bullet holes washing up on shore just after Major William Martin's body.

Speaker 13 The Spanish would know things were not as they seemed. So the serif crew decided to blow it up.
The explosion was loud, but the container did finally sink. And Major Martin? He ended up on the beach.

Speaker 13 At around 9.30 on the morning of April 30th, 1943, the body of Royal Marine acting Major William Martin was discovered by a fisherman in Huelva, Spain.

Speaker 13 This was chosen as the drop-off site because of one specific Huelva resident, Adolf Klaus.

Speaker 21 That's the most

Speaker 13 Klaus was a notorious German spy who was the key to making sure the falsified documents were seen by the Germans.

Speaker 13 The fishermen who found the body notified the Spanish authorities, who informed the British consulate in Spain. And now began a delicate diplomatic dance.

Speaker 13 After enough time had passed for news of Major William Martin's death to travel through official British channels, the British needed to start requesting Martin's briefcase.

Speaker 13 And by pushing for the return of the briefcase, it would alert the Spanish and hopefully the Germans that there was something juicy inside.

Speaker 13 But they couldn't push too hard, where the Spanish might return the briefcase before the Germans could get a peek.

Speaker 13 But they did eventually need to get the documents back if this thing was going to work.

Speaker 13 Because look, if the Germans believed that the British believed that their documents had been lost and the Germans had possibly gained possession of them, they would likely cancel the planned Greek attack.

Speaker 13 No reason to attack if the Germans know it's coming. And that couldn't be allowed to happen.
The Germans had to read the letter and have it returned unopened. So a delicate dance.

Speaker 13 Less delicate was the matter of the autopsy. Glender Michael had, of course, not died by drowning or blunt trauma or shock or exposure.
He ate rat poison.

Speaker 13 A detailed autopsy would almost certainly have revealed that something was off.

Speaker 13 But by this time, the stench of the body was so foul that the British vice consul, who was aware of Operation Mincemeat, was able to cut the autopsy short. He told the staff and the coroner's office,

Speaker 13 it's hot, this place stinks. Let's go grab lunch instead.
I'm buying. And that was the end of the autopsy.
A few days later, a funeral was held for Major William Martin.

Speaker 13 He was buried in Spain with full military honors. Among the crowd of mourners was the German spy, Adolf Klaus.

Speaker 13 Adolf knew about Major William Martin's arrival in Spain and was already working on obtaining a copy of the documents.

Speaker 13 Now, it took a week and a half, but the documents did make their way into the hands of the Germans before finally being returned. No eyelash? No eyelash.

Speaker 13 To get the letter out of the envelope, the Germans inserted a thin wire and actually wound the letter into a tight scroll. The scroll was carefully pulled from a small fold in the envelope.

Speaker 13 It was dried, copied, twisted around the wire again and put back in the envelope without breaking the wax seal. It was then soaked in seawater and returned.

Speaker 13 Even if the eyelash was there, the British would have known the letter was red. Because when they dried it out, it curled up like a potato chip.

Speaker 13 And then the information from the falsified documents made it all the way to Hitler.

Speaker 13 On July 9th, 1943, the joint American and British invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, began. The Allies were met with stormy weather, but little German resistance.

Speaker 13 The enemy was too busy planning for the invasion of Greece. Hitler had bought the Operation Mincemeat Deception completely.

Speaker 13 The British had expected 10,000 killed or wounded in the first week of fighting, but only suffered 1,400 losses. The Navy expected 300 ships would be sunk in the action, but they lost only 12.

Speaker 13 The predicted 90-day campaign was over in 38 days.

Speaker 13 Operation Mincemeat is now considered one of the greatest episodes of wartime deception in history, and it's broadly credited with one of the turning points of World War II.

Speaker 13 But this successful operation had a dark side effect. It ushered in a new era of espionage.
It opened a Pandora's box of intelligence operations focused on deception.

Speaker 13 But the targets of the deception were no longer military. The targets were now civilians.
In 1942, the United States military created the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services.

Speaker 13 This was an intelligence agency modeled after Britain's MI6. After the war, the OSS was dissolved.
But in 1947, a new intelligence agency was created, the CIA.

Speaker 13 Technically, the CIA is a civilian agency tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world.

Speaker 13 But CIA operations are much more creative and devious than simple intelligence gathering. In 1953, the CIA helped overthrow Iran's government via Operation Ajax.

Speaker 13 In 1954, Operation PB Success overthrew the president of Guatemala, a democratically elected president. Syria, Indonesia, Brazil, Nicaragua, Haiti, Uruguay, Panama.

Speaker 13 In these countries and many others, the CIA attempted coups, attempted to remove elected leaders, and in some cases, assassinate those leaders.

Speaker 13 The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis is taught in every American school. It's a story about Soviet aggression and the bravery of President JFK.

Speaker 13 What's not taught is that in the years leading up to the crisis, the CIA established a base of operations in Miami. The only place that had more CIA officers in the world was headquarters in Langley.

Speaker 23 These men belong to a terrorist organization responsible for a recent wave of bombings, kidnappings, and assassination.

Speaker 23 They are Cuban exiles waging a terrorist war against Fidel Castro, and their base of operations is an American city.

Speaker 13 From the Miami base, Operation JM Wave was launched. Cuban exiles were recruited and trained by the CIA to operate as agents.

Speaker 13 Those agents then spent years engaging in an extensive campaign of terrorism on economic and civilian targets. A lot of civilians were killed.

Speaker 13 And this was a major factor in the Soviet decision to place missiles on Cuba. These terrorist attacks continued for years.

Speaker 13 In 1976, Kubana Flight 455 was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 73 people aboard. The CIA was immediately suspected, but naturally they denied it.

Speaker 13 But in 2007, independent research connected the bombing to a CIA asset. During the Vietnam War, the CIA spun up the Phoenix program.

Speaker 13 This program was designed to identify and destroy the Viet Cong, the VC, via infiltration, assassination, terrorism, and torture.

Speaker 13 Phoenix was shut down after the abuse, torture, and murder were exposed. In the 1970s back home, the CIA's Operation Chaos targeted anti-war protesters.

Speaker 21 I thought the CIA only operates overseas and doesn't spy on Americans. Hey, yeah, yeah, I realized how stupid I sounded when I said it.

Speaker 21 Hey, it's a good thing that the CIA, FBI, and other agencies aren't being weaponized and used against American citizens, eh?

Speaker 21 Sarcasm!

Speaker 13 Operation Condor ran for over 20 years and was a program of terrorism, assassination, and overthrow attempts of every socialist leader in South America.

Speaker 13 There's compelling evidence to show that for over 30 years, the CIA helped organize, train, and fund death squads in El Salvador.

Speaker 13 During the U.S.-inspired Civil War, at least 75,000 civilians were killed. MK Ultra was an illegal human experimentation program.

Speaker 13 The CIA was testing drugs that could be used to force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. The program ran for 20 years before being exposed.

Speaker 13 Through the 80s and 90s, the CIA was the biggest illegal drug trafficking and money laundering operation in the world, though this is only alleged.

Speaker 13 Operation Mincemeat is hailed as a great success, a major turning point in World War II that led to the Allied victory and probably saved millions of lives. And I believe that's true.

Speaker 13 But out of the ashes of the war and emboldened by the success of the OSS, emerged the CIA.

Speaker 13 Now, the CIA and its defenders will say that, yes, mistakes were made, but the ultimate goal of the agency is to protect American lives and America's interests overseas.

Speaker 13 And that's what we're taught here in the U.S. And that's what we're shown in every movie about the CIA, which all have to be approved by the CIA.

Speaker 13 But there are people around the world and throughout history that view the CIA as an instrument of evil.

Speaker 13 Thousands, perhaps millions of people, would say the CIA is the most villainous organization ever conceived by man. And I'm not saying it is.
I'm just saying every story has two sides.

Speaker 13 So is the CIA a hero or a villain? Well, it all depends on which side of the table you're sitting.

Speaker 13 on which end of the gun you are, on which end of the needle, on whether you are the tortured or the torturer.

Speaker 13 Now, given the nightmarish abuses and atrocities it's committed, and given the political weaponization of the agency that exists today,

Speaker 13 the CIA, at least the way it's currently structured, might be doing more harm than good.

Speaker 13 But if America is going to have a powerful intelligence agency like the CIA, and I think it should, that agency needs to do better. And we, the people, we need to demand it.

Speaker 13 Okay, let's bring it back to the present. At the Las Vegas airport, there's a terminal with no official name that operates an airline with no official name that has airplanes with no markings.

Speaker 13 And every day, they fly out to the desert and turn off their transponders illegally, and no one knows where they go.

Speaker 13 Why would you spoil the ending?

Speaker 21 I knew you were talking about Area 51. You weren't exactly settled with your clues.

Speaker 13 Anyway, next up is Janet Airlines. J-A-N-E-T,

Speaker 13 just another non-existent terminal.

Speaker 13 You could visit the terminal if you want to, but I don't recommend it.

Speaker 13 One of the government's biggest secrets is hiding in plain sight in Las Vegas. Janet is the top secret government airline that doesn't exist.
Let's find out why.

Speaker 13 All right, here's what you do. Next time you're in Vegas, visit one of the big casinos next to McCarran Airport.
I'm talking about Luxor, Excalibur, Mandalay Bay. You're going there anyway.

Speaker 13 So when you get there, look east at the airport. Okay.
All day long, but especially early in the morning and late in the evening, you'll see mysterious planes taking off and landing.

Speaker 13 And you can't miss them. They're big.
They're Boeing 737s. And?

Speaker 13 And they have no markings, no logos. They're plain white with a single red stripe.
This is Janet Airlines. Where are we going with this?

Speaker 13 Well, Janet is a top-secret Air Force-owned commuter airline for civilians.

Speaker 13 And Janet's mission is to fly employees, contractors, and government VIPs into and out of America's top-secret installations.

Speaker 21 Okay, I'm interested.

Speaker 13 But the destination Janet goes to the most, I'm talking a few times a day, is please say it, please say it. Area 51.

Speaker 21 Yes, grab your tinfoil hat.

Speaker 13 An airline call sign is how planes are identified on the radio. And call signs are often simple, like American 441 or Delta 54.

Speaker 13 And sometimes call signs have a little more pizzazz, like British Airways uses Speedbird, and China Airlines uses the call sign Dynasty. Then there's the call sign Janet.
Just...

Speaker 83 Janet! Dr. Scott!

Speaker 13 Janet! For years, Janet has been a mystery. It's an airline that really isn't an airline.
The fleet uses no logos or special markings of any kind.

Speaker 13 But for years, Janet has been operating in plain sight, taking hundreds of people into and out of McCarran Airport in Las Vegas every day.

Speaker 13 Now, the only way to fly Janet is if you're a government contractor or employee with very, very high security clearance.

Speaker 13 Don't just show up at the terminal.

Speaker 34 How are you doing?

Speaker 73 Okay.

Speaker 34 Step up here for me. Stop right there.

Speaker 83 Who could you point me to at the base who could give me some information? Okay, what I want to tell you right now, you're trespassing on private property.

Speaker 83 Is it government property or is it just private property? No comment. You're trespassing.
Who you trying to kid, bud?

Speaker 35 I just want to f ⁇ me and quit it.

Speaker 13 Janet isn't even the airline's real name. It officially doesn't have one, though people have said it stands for Joint Air Network for Employee Transportation or just another non-existent terminal.

Speaker 13 Ooh, creepy. Now, if you didn't know any better, day-to-day activity at the Janet terminal looks completely normal.

Speaker 13 Overnight, there are only 20 or 30 cars in the parking lot, but during the day, there are hundreds of cars parked there. People show up in civilian clothing, they get on the planes, they go to work.

Speaker 13 Most of the passengers fit on 4737s. They're gone all day.
They come back in the evening, get in their cars, and they go home. Just no big whoop.
But where do these people actually go every day?

Speaker 13 Well, the government won't tell us. In fact, the government hasn't acknowledged that Janet even exists.
Naturally. So let's do some digging.

Speaker 13 Janet planes have airline codes and flight numbers just like regular commercial planes. And just like typical planes, Janet's planes are equipped with transponders that allow them to be tracked.

Speaker 13 Using a few websites, linked below, you can track almost every flight in the world. But something strange happens when you track a Janet flight.

Speaker 13 As soon as it gets about 20 minutes north of Las Vegas, the plane vanishes. Whoa.
You know what's up there? Area 51!

Speaker 13 The government officially calls it Homey Airport or Groom Lake, but yeah, that's Area 51. Well, how do we know?

Speaker 13 Well, first of all, unless it's an emergency, planes are required to keep their transponders on. But when a Janet Airline enters Area 51 airspace, it turns off its transponder every time.

Speaker 13 And second of all, the airspace around Area 51 is highly restricted. But if you try to fly in without permission, best case scenario is you'll be escorted out by fighter jets.

Speaker 13 Worst case scenario, you'll be turned into scrap metal by fighter jets. Either way, there's fighter jets.

Speaker 13 Janet also flies to Air Force Plant 42, the Tonop Military Test Range, and the China Lake Weapons Testing Facility.

Speaker 13 Now, these are the most restricted airspaces in the world, but somehow, every day, Janet Airlines fly in and out of them without a problem.

Speaker 13 Okay, so here is the current Janet fleet.

Speaker 21 Hey, uh, should we be showing this?

Speaker 13 What, this is public information?

Speaker 21 Yeah, that wasn't my question.

Speaker 13 What was that? Do you hear that?

Speaker 13 So, using the fleet information, you can go to the FAA website and see who owns the plane. So, let's do that.

Speaker 21 Bingo!

Speaker 13 Right. Okay, so this definitely is a U.S.
government plane that is owned by the U.S. Air Force.

Speaker 13 Considering the patterns of the flights, it's safe to conclude that the planes are definitely taking government employees to the facilities where they work. But the destinations are also classified.

Speaker 13 Frequently, a jetted flight will tell the tower it's going to one place, but actually goes somewhere completely different.

Speaker 21 The government lies. Well, you can knock me over with a feather.

Speaker 13 But Janet is not technically operated by the government. It operates like a civilian airline.
Okay, so if the Air Force owns the airline but doesn't operate it, who does?

Speaker 13 So who actually operates Janet Airlines? A little cyber sleuthing gives us more clues. Area 51 was originally established by the CIA as a secure airport for testing advanced aircraft.

Speaker 21 And testing other things.

Speaker 13 In the early 70s, authority of the base transferred from the CIA to the Air Force.

Speaker 13 Now at that time, employees were either bust in or they took shuttle flights from Lockheed Martin in Burbank, California.

Speaker 21 Lockheed Martin again.

Speaker 13 Yep. And for you guys that are new to this channel, it seems like we can't get through a single conspiracy video without Lockheed Martin coming up.

Speaker 21 This is not an accident.

Speaker 13 Doesn't seem to be. A few years later, Janet Operation was transferred to defense contractor EG ⁇ G.
And EEG ⁇ G was one of the companies who helped develop the atomic bomb. So.

Speaker 21 So they were involved in shady stuff.

Speaker 13 They were. EG ⁇ G bought a few used planes from China, transitioned the fleet to Boeing 737s, and moved the op to Gold Coast Terminal in Las Vegas.

Speaker 13 Now, if you Google the location of the Janet Airlines terminal, you get something called the AECOM Hangar, which Google describes as a non-governmental organization.

Speaker 21 Suspicious.

Speaker 13 I thought so too. So let's backtrack.
AECOM Hangar used to be called the Gold Coast Terminal. The original operator of the Gold Coast was defense contractor EG ⁇ G.
How do we know it was EG ⁇ G?

Speaker 13 Well, they posted a job listing saying so, and I'll link it below.

Speaker 13 Now, EG ⁇ G was acquired by the Carlisle Group in 1999, which was acquired by the URS Corporation in 2002, which was acquired by AECom in 2014, so AECOM hanger.

Speaker 21 That's a huckleberry.

Speaker 13 Yep. So what does AECom do?

Speaker 13 Well, the company describes itself very vaguely as a global network of design, engineering, construction, and management professionals partnering with clients to imagine and deliver a better world.

Speaker 21 Word salad.

Speaker 13 With revenues of $18 billion.

Speaker 21 Word salad with government contracts.

Speaker 13 Yep, and there's more. AECOM recently posted a job opening for a first officer/slash co-pilot in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Speaker 13 The preferred qualifications include Boeing 737 experience, okay, and high-performance and or jet aircraft experience.

Speaker 13 Okay. The job listing doesn't make any reference to Janet, but candidates must qualify for and maintain a top-secret government security clearance.

Speaker 21 Yep, that's Janet.

Speaker 13 Definitely Janet.

Speaker 82 This week we've heard the contention of UFO researchers researchers that there is a secret government within our government.

Speaker 82 While that may be hard to believe coming from the UFO perspective, we've certainly learned in Watergate and the Iran-Contra scandal that factions within our government can and do pursue their own hidden agendas outside of the law, outside the control of Congress, or the knowledge of the American people.

Speaker 13 Area 51 is inside the Nevada test and training range, which is made up of smaller distinct areas with different purposes. And many sections are designated designated Area X.

Speaker 13 So, yes, there is an Area 49, an Area 50, an Area 52, and so on. Now, surrounding Area 51 is Nellis Air Force Range, which covers a huge amount of southern Nevada.

Speaker 13 Now, at various points in time, Area 51 has been called the Watertown Strip, Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, Homey Airport, the area, the remote location, or out of town. Isn't that cute?

Speaker 13 Where sometimes it's simply referred to as Nowhere.

Speaker 44 Nowhere?

Speaker 74 It's a place. We've been there.

Speaker 76 It sucks.

Speaker 13 Area 51 has been home to some of America's most highly secret aviation programs.

Speaker 21 Among other things.

Speaker 13 This is where the U-2 spy plane and Lockheed A-12 were secretly tested, where the F-117 Nighthawk stealth attack aircraft was developed before being deployed to the Gulf.

Speaker 13 And now, who really knows what's hiding in the hangars? You're unidentified.

Speaker 13 But we do know that on average, about a thousand people a day take Janet planes from Vegas to Area 51 and back.

Speaker 13 Could they be working on the Lockheed SR-72, a spy plane capable of Mach 6 or 4,600 miles an hour?

Speaker 13 Were they working on the B-21 Raider, a new generation of stealth bomber that can deliver a nuclear weapon anywhere in the world? Or?

Speaker 82 He says he was hired to work at an area called S-4, which is a few miles south of Groom Lake.

Speaker 82 At S4, he says, are flying saucers, anti-matter reactors, and other working examples of technology that is seemingly beyond human capabilities.

Speaker 24 Right, this came from somewhere else. I mean, as bizarre as that is to believe, but I mean, it's there.
I saw saw it. I know what the current state of the art is

Speaker 24 in physics, and

Speaker 24 it can't be done.

Speaker 13 Could these people be commuting from Las Vegas on a secret airline to work on extraterrestrial spacecraft? I think so. It's possible.
Nobody really knows.

Speaker 13 But every year, we seem to get closer to some kind of reveal. For years, the government denied Area 51 even existed, but finally admitted it in 2013.

Speaker 13 And after years of denial, the CIA just released a bunch of UFO documents acknowledging they exist. And a full document dump is happening later this year.

Speaker 13 Air Force and Navy pilots are coming forward with stories and footage. Major news organizations are covering UFOs as legitimate stories.
Every day for at least a couple of years.

Speaker 13 UFOs aren't fringe anymore. People, regular, normal people, want to know what's going on.
The U.S. government won't acknowledge that Janet Airlines exists, but that's okay.
We know that it does.

Speaker 13 Considering the ubiquity of information today and the speed at which it travels, it's becoming more and more difficult for governments to keep secrets from its citizens.

Speaker 13 And overall, that's a good thing.

Speaker 13 Now, I live in Las Vegas and I work pretty close to the airport, and I see those planes all the time.

Speaker 13 I don't like the sound of that. Do we have a code brown?

Speaker 21 Sewer? No, no, we learned our lesson last time.

Speaker 21 We know where every sewer pipe in the neighborhood is oosh that was a mess you eat a lot of corn you don't have just tell me what did you find bones bones like a body no no no dinosaur bones are you sure they're dinosaur bones 100

Speaker 21 morgan has a master's in paleontology uh he says it's an allosaurus allosaurus it's a large conivorous theropod that lived during the late jurassic period i know what

Speaker 21 wait what what's the problem well this fuzzy moron sent a picture to his buddy at the natural history museum not a whole freaking neighborhood knows.

Speaker 21 Our entire property is cordoned off and declared an archaeological site.

Speaker 21 Now we gotta find an ambient bee for about three months.

Speaker 13 Three months? Uh-uh-oh.

Speaker 21 And the president of the HOA stopped by.

Speaker 13 He wants a word. I told you not to.

Speaker 21 They sent the building inspector from the city.

Speaker 21 We got fines of the wazoo over here.

Speaker 21 Apparently, our paddock room, bunker, and bowling alley are not up to cone.

Speaker 13 Did you just say bowling alley? Uh-uh.

Speaker 21 And the tax assessor said your property taxes are going up because of a swimming pool.

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Speaker 13 Oh, I'm sure he loved that.

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I'm out of sorts.

Speaker 13 Last episode for today is one of my favorite internet mysteries, Cicada 3301.

Speaker 13 One day, out of nowhere, an image appears on 4chan, the picture of a duck. Nobody knows what it is.
Some people do some digging and realize the image contains a secret message.

Speaker 13 And that leads to a series of puzzles that become more and more difficult to solve. And that leads to an international scavenger hunt with all these puzzles and mysteries to solve.

Speaker 13 And it spans a couple of years. And the thing is, nobody knows who's behind Cicada 3301.
But it all seems very deliberate.

Speaker 13 Early in the morning of January 4th, 2012, a strange message appeared on the internet. Just a few lines of text on a black background posted anonymously.

Speaker 36 Hello. Hello.

Speaker 68 We are looking for highly intelligent individuals.

Speaker 22 To find them, we have devised a test.

Speaker 68 There is a message hidden in this image.

Speaker 68 Find it, and it will lead you on the road to finding us.

Speaker 20 Good luck.

Speaker 13 Many speculated that it was a recruiting tool for the NSA, the CIA, MI6, or even the Masons. But who was really behind this? And what was its purpose? And did it even have a purpose?

Speaker 13 Whether it did or not, it didn't matter. Because when you post a puzzle on the internet looking for highly intelligent people, that's a challenge that's simply impossible to resist.

Speaker 13 So the hunt for Cicada 3301 was on.

Speaker 13 On January 4th, 2012, the first puzzle was posted on 4chan by a self-identified group called 3301. The post was simply an image with text.

Speaker 68 There is a message hidden in this image. Find it, and it will lead you on the road to finding us.

Speaker 13 The puzzle was open to anyone and everyone. As you solve each clue, you move on to the next level.
The image that was posted on 4chan was the first clue.

Speaker 13 Solvers tried various methods to extract the secret message. Some used Photoshop to view the pixels.
They applied different filters and techniques to see what could be hidden in the image.

Speaker 13 But the solution to the puzzle wasn't visual. It was plain text.
When an image is opened in a text editor, it looks like nonsense, strings of characters and symbols.

Speaker 13 But to a computer, these symbols make sense. It's a binary format representing pixel placement, color information, information, metadata, and all kinds of other stuff.

Speaker 13 And when the 3301 image was opened in a text editor, there was a string of characters at the end of the file.

Speaker 13 Because of the repeating characters and the name Tiberius Claudius Caesar, people quickly and correctly guessed the message was encoded with a Caesar cipher.

Speaker 13 A Caesar cipher works by shifting the letters of the alphabet a fixed number of places down or up.

Speaker 13 You choose a shift value, for example, three, and for each letter in the original text, replace it with the letter that's located three positions down.

Speaker 13 If you reach the end of the alphabet, you wrap around to the beginning. For example, using a shift value of three, A becomes D, B becomes E, C becomes F, and so on.

Speaker 13 The Caesar cipher is easy to crack with modern methods and isn't considered secure, but it's historically significant and often used as a basic introduction to cryptography.

Speaker 13 such was the case with the first puzzle. When the message was decoded with a shift of four places, the result was a URL, which turned out to be another image.

Speaker 13 Whoops.

Speaker 68 Just decoys this way. Looks like you can't guess how to get the message out.

Speaker 13 The participants hit their first wall. Opening this image in a text editor showed nothing.

Speaker 13 Turned out that the image contained two keywords that hint at how to get the real message out, the words guess and out.

Speaker 13 Those keywords indicated you needed to run the image through OutGuess, a small application used for steganography.

Speaker 13 Throughout this complicated scavenger hunt, OutGuest would become a favorite tool of Cicada 3301. Now, steganography is hiding a message, image, or file within another message, image, or file.

Speaker 13 Unlike encryption, which scrambles data so that it's unreadable without the correct key, steganography conceals the fact that a secret message exists at all.

Speaker 13 Imagine you have a digital photo and you want to hide a text message in it. You could subtly change the color values of certain pixels to encode the text.

Speaker 13 To anyone looking at the image, it appears normal, but someone who knows where and how to look could extract the hidden message. Outguest revealed a page on Reddit and a different clue: a book cipher.

Speaker 13 Book ciphers are almost impossible to crack without the book, but 3301 knew how to give us just enough information to keep us hooked, and people were hooked.

Speaker 13 So, when Solvers finally made it to Reddit, they realized that Cicada 3301 was just warming up.

Speaker 13 When the image of the duck was processed with OutGuest, it revealed a URL and a book cipher.

Speaker 13 A book cipher is a type of encryption where the key to deciphering the code is a specific text, such as a book or article.

Speaker 13 Each word or letter in the secret message is replaced by a coordinate that points to its location in the chosen text.

Speaker 13 For example, if the word apple is found on page 42, line 5, word 3 of the book, you'd replace apple in your message with the coordinates 42,

Speaker 13 The Beale ciphers are a set of three ciphertexts that supposedly reveal the location of $43 million of hidden treasure somewhere in Bedford County, Virginia.

Speaker 13 They were first published in 1885, and the second text was actually decoded using the Declaration of Independence.

Speaker 13 The other two texts are still a mystery, but over 100 years later, people are still looking.

Speaker 21 Yeah, 43 mil keeps you motivated.

Speaker 13 It does.

Speaker 13 So to decode 3301's book cipher, we'll need the book, which could be found on Reddit. But when he got to the page on Reddit, it was full of posts with encrypted titles.

Speaker 13 There was also an odd image in the header. Even the page had a title that looked like random characters.
But by now, everyone knew there was nothing random about it.

Speaker 13 There were also several lines of texts and two additional images. Using OutGuest on the Welcome Met image gives us this.

Speaker 68 From here on out, we will cryptographically sign all messages with this key.

Speaker 68 It is available on the MIT key servers.

Speaker 68 Patience is a virtue.

Speaker 68 Good luck.

Speaker 20 3301.

Speaker 13 This information was extremely important to the people following the clues. There were a lot of imposters popping up pretending to be Cicada 3301.

Speaker 13 But because 3301 implemented PGP encryption, new messages could be authenticated. PGP stands for pretty good privacy, and this is an encryption system used for sending emails and sensitive files.

Speaker 13 How it works is you create two keys. One is public, which you share with everyone.
The other is private, which only you have.

Speaker 13 So if someone wants to send you a secure message they encrypt it with the public key that you shared and then you use your private key to decode the message.

Speaker 13 3301 would encrypt all their clues going forward, like the clue hidden in the second image which was a stereogram, which is an optical illusion that creates a 3D image when viewed in a specific way.

Speaker 13 This stereogram kind of looked like the Holy Grail.

Speaker 13 And this image also contained a secret message.

Speaker 68 The key has always been right in front of your eyes. This isn't the quest for the Holy Grail.
Stop making it more difficult than it is.

Speaker 20 Good luck. Good luck.

Speaker 76 3301.

Speaker 13 The subreddit also contained many lines of what appeared to be encrypted text. The question that everyone faced was: which cipher method had to be used, and how do you find the key?

Speaker 13 The hidden message provided a hint. The key was literally in front of your eyes.
It was the image in the header.

Speaker 13 Those symbols are actually Mayan numbers.

Speaker 21 The title title translates to cocis mira thosat nabka what are you talking about the clue i'm gonna solve this one okay what is it cocus mira thosat nabka yeah that's uh that's a mayan word for something right a mayan word for goat kiss no the letters make up a the mayan word for lettuce no they make up a

Speaker 21 word for makeup no it's a key the mayan word for key it's not a mayan word it's an encryption key okay okay don't get your panties in a wad uh key to what

Speaker 13 Remember the subreddit was full of posts with encrypted titles? It was determined that they were encoded with a Visionnaire cipher, which is another letter shifting encryption technique.

Speaker 13 Visionnaire encoded text needs a key. The string of letters made from the Maya numbers was that key.
Without the key, decoding a Visionnaire encrypted message is almost impossible.

Speaker 13 Even with the key, it would take a long time. And if you miss just one letter, you end up with meaningless text.
So your translation has to be perfect. But there's no reason to do it manually.

Speaker 13 It takes a lot of processing power, but computers can eventually guess most visionary keys. But if you already have the key, computers can easily decode the message.

Speaker 13 There are even websites to help you do this. The decoded text was from Thomas Bullfinch's Mythology.

Speaker 13 This was a classic work based on the tales of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and their hunt for the Holy Grail.

Speaker 13 So now the Solvers knew the book that was needed to decode the book cipher. But this time, it wasn't a message, or a web page, or an image, it was a phone number.

Speaker 13 At first, people thought Cicada 3301 was just an online troll pumping out puzzles to waste everyone's time, but there was just too much work put into it.

Speaker 13 Whoever was behind the puzzles was someone with computer skills and advanced knowledge in cryptography. So the duck image led to a book code and a page on Reddit.

Speaker 13 And the page on Reddit led to two more images, Maya Numbers and the book cipher. And the book was about King Arthur's quest for the Holy Grail.

Speaker 23 Get on with it. Yes, get on with it!

Speaker 13 Now we can use the book code mentioned in the outguest message from the initial image. A book code encodes each letter with two numbers, the line number and the character index in the line.

Speaker 13 By applying the book code to the text, we get the following text string.

Speaker 68 Call us. Telephone number 214-390-9608.

Speaker 13 When the book cipher revealed a phone number in Austin, Texas, codebreakers thought they'd finally learn who was behind Cicada 3301. 3301.

Speaker 27 Very good.

Speaker 20 You have done well.

Speaker 27 There are three prime numbers associated with the original final.jpg image. 3301

Speaker 20 is one of them. You will have to find the other two.

Speaker 27 Multiply all three of these numbers together and add a dot-com on the end to find the next step.

Speaker 20 Good luck. Goodbye.

Speaker 13 No answers. Just another clue.
Cicada 3301 was a series of intricately woven puzzles.

Speaker 13 Each puzzle got progressively more complex, but future puzzles often referred back to earlier ones, indicating this entire process was thought out well in advance.

Speaker 13 The length of the scavenger hunt also weeded out casual participants. Only those with patience would continue.
It was natural selection.

Speaker 13 Solvers went back to the original image, looking for anything that would indicate a a prime number. Outguests revealed nothing.

Speaker 13 Scanning the image with Photoshop and other forensic tools also provided no help. People counted the characters and the spaces in the text.
They converted the characters to ASCII.

Speaker 13 They ran the text through every cryptography algorithm you could think of and still nothing. But like many of the cicada puzzles, the answer was hidden in plain sight.

Speaker 13 The original image looks like a square, but keen observers noticed it wasn't a perfect square. The image was actually 509 pixels wide by 503 pixels tall.
509 and 503 are prime numbers.

Speaker 13 Multiply 509 by 503 by 3301 and you get 845145127. Add a dot com just like the voicemail said and that's where we see the infamous cicada image for the first time.

Speaker 13 Under the image was a timer and it was counting down. When the countdown reached zero, the timer was replaced with a list of coordinates.

Speaker 13 14 locations in five countries all over the world, with an invitation to find the location nearest you.

Speaker 13 Up until now, the puzzles existed exclusively on the internet, but now Cicada 3301 was going out into the real world.

Speaker 13 The list of 14 locations around the world indicated that Cicada 3301 was a global organization. or a handful of people with the time and money to create complex puzzles and travel the globe.

Speaker 13 But by by taking the next round of puzzles into the real world, Cicada created another filter.

Speaker 13 In order to move forward, not only did you have to be excellent at cryptography, you had to have the means to travel to one of the locations provided, and only the most committed could proceed.

Speaker 13 At each of the coordinates was a poster containing the Cicada image and a QR code. Scanning the QR code resulted in a link to another JPEG file.

Speaker 13 Like before, running the image through AppGuest revealed secret text.

Speaker 68 A poem of fading death, named for a king, meant to be read only once and vanish. Alas, it could not remain unseen.

Speaker 13 The image also included a warning.

Speaker 68 You've shared too much to this point.

Speaker 36 We want the best, not the followers.

Speaker 68 Thus, the first few there will receive the prize.

Speaker 71 Good luck. Good luck.

Speaker 20 3301.

Speaker 13 Considering the difficulty of the puzzles and the mystery surrounding them, it was only natural that people were talking and sharing information and collaborating.

Speaker 13 If you didn't live near one of the the cicada locations, you almost had no choice but to ask for help. But Cicada 3301 was clearly watching, and if you got caught teaming up, you'd be out.

Speaker 13 And it didn't take long to identify the text referred to by the last clue. It was the poem Agrippa by cyberpunk novelist William Gibson.
Agrippa is a very cicada type of poem.

Speaker 13 It was originally distributed on Floppy Disk, and after you read the poem, it encrypted itself.

Speaker 30 Meant to be read only once and forever.

Speaker 13 Solving the book code resulted in another URL. But this one was different.
A dot onion extension.

Speaker 13 Onion routing makes the data's source and destination untraceable by encrypting the data multiple times, like the layers of an onion. Onion pages aren't accessible with a regular web browser.

Speaker 13 You need a specialized browser designed specifically to access pages hosted on the Onion Router Network, or Tor network. In other words, the dark web.

Speaker 13 When most people think of the dark web, they imagine a place full of illegal activities, a place where people can buy and sell drugs, weapons, and worse.

Speaker 13 And it's true, those things exist on the dark web, but that's only a small fraction of what's there.

Speaker 13 The dark web is actually a part of the deep web, which is all the un-indexed parts of the internet, including private databases, email accounts, and subscription services.

Speaker 13 In fact, most of the data on the internet exists on the deep web.

Speaker 13 The dark web is specifically the section of the deep web accessible only through specialized tools like the Tor browser, which makes web traffic anonymous.

Speaker 13 Before it was made public, Tor was used by the U.S. Navy to secure government communications.

Speaker 13 Later, it became a beacon for privacy advocates and anyone looking to shield their online activity from prying eyes. Not just criminals, though.

Speaker 13 Journalists use the dark web to communicate with activists in oppressive countries. Whistleblowers have used the dark web to remain anonymous.

Speaker 13 If you want to remain anonymous and untraceable, you go to the dark web. It's only natural that a group like Cicada 3301 would end up there.

Speaker 13 So, Cicada solvers who made it this far typed the onion link into their Tor browser and were greeted with the following message.

Speaker 68 Congratulations.

Speaker 72 Please create a new email address with a public, free web-based service.

Speaker 68 One you've never used before and enter it below. We recommend you do this while still using Tor for anonymity.

Speaker 72 We will email you a number within the next few days, in the order in which you arrived at this page.

Speaker 68 Once you've received it, come back to this page and append a slash, and then the number you received to this URL.

Speaker 76 3301.

Speaker 13 This would be the first time that Cicada would communicate directly with people. Very few made the cut, but those that did received an email a few days later.

Speaker 76 This message will only be displayed once.

Speaker 68 Here is a message that has been encrypted with RSA. The encrypted message is a number.
Break the decryption key, then come back to this same URL and enter the decrypted message to continue.

Speaker 68 Each person who has come this far has received a unique message encrypted with a unique key.

Speaker 20 You are not to collaborate.

Speaker 68 Sharing your message or key will result in not receiving the next step.

Speaker 71 Good luck. Good luck.

Speaker 76 3301.

Speaker 13 Since each participant was assigned a unique number, Cicada 3301 was able to track who was sharing information. If you got caught, you were out.

Speaker 34 Hello. Hello.

Speaker 50 You have shared your information online.

Speaker 68 You are now removed removed from this altogether.

Speaker 68 Even if you crack the key you've been given, it doesn't matter. Because you have demonstrated that you can't be trusted to follow simple instructions anyway.

Speaker 68 Thank you for your participation to this point.

Speaker 50 Goodbye.

Speaker 72 3301.

Speaker 13 But those who were able to solve the puzzle and solve it alone received an email. The email contained the following text, along with a piece of music.

Speaker 20 This song is your own path, another stop on the road toward enlightenment.

Speaker 71 Follow it and share not.

Speaker 21 Oh, that was terrible. But still better than K-pop.

Speaker 36 Ice cream, chillin.

Speaker 30 Ice cream, chillin', chillin'.

Speaker 13 Ice cream.

Speaker 13 The music was encoded as a MIDI file. MIDI is music expressed as code.
It was found that there were two tracks that provided two different messages.

Speaker 13 Each message had fewer than 26 combinations of pitch and tone, which hinted that each combination could represent one letter. The music was decoded into a cryptogram, which could then be broken.

Speaker 76 Very good. Very good.

Speaker 68 You have proven to be most dedicated to come this far to attain enlightenment. Very good.
Create a GPG key for your email address and upload it to the MIT key servers.

Speaker 76 Then, encrypt the following word list using the Cicada 3301 public key.

Speaker 68 Sign it with your key. Send the ASCII armored ciphertext to the Gmail address from which you received your numbers.

Speaker 13 Everyone who received this email was also given a set of 50 unique words. Those words were to be encrypted and emailed back.

Speaker 13 What happened after that is unknown, but about a month later, the image on the subreddit changed.

Speaker 68 We have now found the individuals we sought. Thus, our month-long journey ends.
For now, thank you for your dedication and effort.

Speaker 68 If you were unable to complete the test or did not receive an email, do not despair. There will be more opportunities like this one.
Hello. Thank you all.

Speaker 30 3301.

Speaker 13 And just as cryptically as the Cicada puzzle started, it finally ended. It was assumed that the mysterious group, whoever they were, finally found the highly intelligent individuals it needed.

Speaker 13 Cicada 3301 stopped posting messages and was largely forgotten. But a year and a day after the first puzzle was posted, Cicada 3301 was back.

Speaker 13 Cicada was quiet for a year, but on January 5th, a new image was posted to 4chan.

Speaker 71 Hello again. Hello.

Speaker 68 Our search for intelligent individuals now continues.

Speaker 76 Good luck. 3301.

Speaker 13 Like before, running the image through OutGuest led to a book code, which led to a URL, which led to a file. A large file.

Speaker 13 This file was its own mini-operating system.

Speaker 13 When you booted it up, it displayed the prime numbers up to 3301 and then restarted the computer. It would do this indefinitely.
But there was also a message within the numbers.

Speaker 68 The key is all around you.

Speaker 76 Good luck.

Speaker 68 3301.

Speaker 13 Those numbers led to a Twitter account that was posting tons of encrypted text that nobody could decode.

Speaker 13 But on the mini operating system, someone realized that you could break the boot sequence and browse the file system. In one of the folders, there was a song, this time an MP3 file.

Speaker 13 According to the ID tags, the title of the file was The Instar Emergence. Solvers tried all sorts of techniques on this file to search for hidden meanings.
They played it backwards.

Speaker 13 They isolated frequencies. They even ran the sound through spectral analyzers, but they found nothing.
There were hidden messages and odd mini poems all over the place, but nothing seemed connected.

Speaker 13 Then someone determined that the messages from the Twitter feed were actually lines of binary code, which could be assembled into a file.

Speaker 13 But it was encrypted and nobody could figure out how to decode it. It turned out that the messages were encoded with the binary data from another file as the key.
That file was the song.

Speaker 13 So using the song, the Twitter data was decrypted into an image.

Speaker 13 A room table. The rune table image also contained secret text, which led to more puzzles, which led to the dark web and to more posters around the world with different coordinates.

Speaker 13 In order to move forward from here, you'd need to have solved every puzzle so far.

Speaker 13 Now on the posters, there were phone numbers, and each phone number required an access code that you'd decipher using the rune table.

Speaker 13 Once you got past the access code, a computerized voice then read you a string of letters and numbers, which turned out to be a hex code.

Speaker 13 And then the hex code converted to a page on the dark web, which had a test for you to take.

Speaker 13 There were 19 questions in total, some mathematical, some logical, some philosophical. Very few people made it past this test, but those that did received an email.

Speaker 68 Congratulations.

Speaker 68 Your testing has finally come to an end.

Speaker 68 We hope you have enjoyed the vacation over the last few weeks. You will be very busy now, should you choose to join us.
You have all wondered who we are, and so we shall now tell you.

Speaker 68 We are an international group.

Speaker 68 We have no name.

Speaker 68 We are drawn together by common beliefs

Speaker 68 that tyranny and oppression of any kind must end.

Speaker 68 That censorship is wrong and that privacy is an inalienable right.

Speaker 13 Cicada 3301 was pretty well known by now and was being connected to hacker groups and this was addressed in that email.

Speaker 68 We do not engage in illegal activity, nor do our members. If you are engaged in illegal activity, we ask that you cease any and all illegal activities or decline membership at this time.

Speaker 68 We will not ask questions if you decline. However, if you lie to us, we will find out.

Speaker 13 But the big question was why? What does Cicada 3301 even do?

Speaker 68 We are much like a think tank in that our primary focus is on researching and developing techniques to aid the ideas we advocate. Liberty, privacy, security.

Speaker 68 And if you choose to accept membership, we are happy to have you on board to help with future projects.

Speaker 13 So that was it. Cicada 3301 found a few more recruits and went dark.
But the following January, people eagerly waited to see if Cicada would return. And they did not disappoint.

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Speaker 40 But Adam Scott group messages with an app that isn't WhatsApp, which means he still can't find that text from his friends about where to meet.

Speaker 43 Hang on, still scrolling.

Speaker 44 No, the address is here somewhere.

Speaker 40 It's time for WhatsApp.

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Speaker 13 After being inactive for a year, in January 2014, the Cicada Twitter account tweeted a link to a new image.

Speaker 13 Hello, hello.

Speaker 68 Epiphany is upon you.

Speaker 20 Good luck.

Speaker 68 Your pilgrimage has begun. Good luck.
Enlightenment awaits.

Speaker 36 Hello, good luck.

Speaker 72 3301.

Speaker 13 During the time Cicada was quiet, there were lots of fake puzzles floating around claiming to be from Cicada 3301, and they all turned out to be fakes.

Speaker 13 But running this new image through OutGuest revealed a new message that proved to be authentic. Cicada 3301 was back, and they followed their familiar format.

Speaker 13 They embedded messages and images that could be extracted with Outguests. These images led to more clues on various web pages and the dark web.
And a new piece of music was also discovered.

Speaker 13 This one was called interconnectedness.

Speaker 13 Using some familiar techniques, as well as some new ones, Cicada solvers concluded that Cicada was focusing on a single document.

Speaker 13 It's called the Libre Primus or first book. As more puzzles were solved, more pages of Libre Primus were uncovered.
The book was written using the runes found in earlier puzzles.

Speaker 13 But the solution to every puzzle seemed to be a clue to yet another puzzle. People went back to the music file.
They found more clues.

Speaker 13 From image files, they extracted more codes and more puzzles like magic squares and anagrams. All of those were decoded to reveal strange poems, which were nothing more than clues.

Speaker 13 Libra Primus is 59 pages, and only a handful have been solved. And the pages that are solved are still mysterious.
January 2015 came and went with nothing from Cicada.

Speaker 13 Some people speculated that Cicada had enough recruits for whatever it was they were doing. Others thought that Cicada would stay silent until all of Libre Primus was solved, and they could be right.

Speaker 13 In January 2016, Cicada tweeted a link to a new image. Running the image through AppCast proved it was authentic.

Speaker 71 Hello. Hello.

Speaker 68 The path lies empty.

Speaker 76 Epiphany seeks the devoted.

Speaker 68 Libre Primus is the way. Its words are the map.
Their meaning is the road, and their numbers are the direction.

Speaker 76 Seek, and you will be found.

Speaker 71 Good luck.

Speaker 72 3301.

Speaker 68 Beware, false paths.

Speaker 13 Many speculated that their numbers are the direction was the major clue, but still no progress was made.

Speaker 13 In 2017, a user stumbled across a message from Cicada in Google's cached pages that nobody had noticed.

Speaker 76 Beware false paths.

Speaker 68 Always verify PGP signature.

Speaker 13 And that was the last anyone heard from Cicada 3301. It's been a few years with no solution to Libre Primus and no further contact from Cicada.
This was disappointing to a lot of people.

Speaker 13 After all this, over several years, we were still no closer to finding out who Cicada 3301 was or what they did. But Libre Primus was the third quest.
The first two were solved.

Speaker 13 And the people who solved them, they started talking.

Speaker 13 When that first image appeared on 4chan looking for highly intelligent individuals, the chase was on.

Speaker 13 The mysterious group known as 3301 presented clues and challenges that thousands of techies and puzzle solvers found impossible to resist. Each mystery became more complex.

Speaker 13 The clues that connected Julius Caesar and King Arthur to cryptography were genius and easy enough to solve that people became hooked.

Speaker 13 The solutions that led to phone numbers and geographic coordinates made the search even more real. But over time, it became clear that 3301 was looking for a specific type of person.

Speaker 13 To solve Cicada, you needed knowledge of the concepts and the tools used in encryption. You had to have computer skills, understand operating systems, and be handy with programming.

Speaker 13 It also didn't hurt if you had expertise in Mayan numerology and pre-Christian literature. Yeah, who doesn't?

Speaker 13 But who was Cicada? A popular theory was that this was a recruiting effort for a government intelligence agency like CIA, NSA, or MI6. There was plenty of precedent for that.

Speaker 13 During the Second World War, the top-secret government code and cipher school used crossword puzzles printed in the Daily Telegraph to identify good candidates for Bletchley Park.

Speaker 13 Those recruits, along with Alan Turing, went on to solve the Enigma machine, which helped the Allies win the war. NSA and CIA ran similar contests over the years.

Speaker 13 Companies like Google and Microsoft have also used cryptography and puzzles to recruit. But one of the early winners said Cicada was none of these.

Speaker 13 After solving the final round of puzzles in 2013, he received an email with a username and password along with a site address on the dark web. The site had two parts, a message board and a chat room.

Speaker 13 The message board had various topics, including a welcome section and an area for Cicada's goals and current projects. The chat room had about 20 members.

Speaker 13 According to a couple of the the winners, Cicada wanted to further the use of cryptography so more people would have access to internet privacy.

Speaker 13 Cicada had some big goals, but in the short term, they wanted to recruit highly technical people to develop open source cryptography software.

Speaker 21 All that to find people to write free software?

Speaker 13 Yep. And I think this was Cicada's big mistake.
The recruits didn't want to write software, they wanted to solve puzzles. And when the puzzles stopped, the membership dwindled.

Speaker 13 There were spikes in membership when new challenges appeared, but it was the same story. The winners weren't interested in writing software.
They weren't driven by ideology.

Speaker 13 They didn't care about politics. They just wanted to solve puzzles.
The same thing happens when NSA, CIA, GCHQ, and other intelligence organizations do recruitment drives.

Speaker 13 Many of the winners are offered positions in one of these agencies, and many of them refuse. They don't want to work in government.

Speaker 21 Yeah, they're too smart to work in government.

Speaker 13 Well, that might be part of it, but really, they just want to solve puzzles. Whenever you achieve a task, your brain rewards you with a hit of dopamine.

Speaker 13 This could mean finishing a workout, completing a school project, or figuring out an escape room. Achieve a goal, get some dopamine.
Our brains love dopamine.

Speaker 13 It turns out that solving problems is one of the biggest, if not the biggest source of dopamine for the brain.

Speaker 13 Solving puzzles like those presented by Cicada reward us with dopamine while we're working on them. And when we actually solve one?

Speaker 13 Well, Cicada solvers describe that feeling as nothing less than exhilarating.

Speaker 13 Now, plenty of people are interested in politics and ideology, but not too many of them would describe their interest as exhilarating. Puzzles make us happy.

Speaker 13 When was the last time politics made you happy? And although two of the goals of this channel are to educate and inspire, the primary goal is to entertain.

Speaker 13 In other words, the Wi-Files is here to make you happy. So that's why I've included a cicada type puzzle in this video.
Think you can find it?

Speaker 13 3 plus 15 plus 00.

Speaker 13 Okay, now I don't know if you caught caught the end of that, but there is a cicada-type puzzle in that episode.

Speaker 13 Now, my puzzles are nowhere near as complicated as Cicada, but I still think I made them pretty challenging. So I was kind of annoyed and surprised when someone solved it in 90 minutes.

Speaker 13 And I thought, oh no, I made it way too easy.

Speaker 13 But I didn't.

Speaker 13 He admitted that he got very, very lucky with one of the clues, that he didn't really solve it. It was almost an accident, which turned out to be true because 1,200 people

Speaker 13 thought they solved it over the next two, three, four days, and 21 of them got it right. And I don't know how many other people tried, but I got 1,200 responses and only 21 got it correct.

Speaker 13 So if you like solving stuff like that, like 3301, go watch that episode episode and look for the clues. They are there.
Anyway, this has been a YFILE compilation episode. My name is AJ.

Speaker 13 That's Ecclevish.

Speaker 21 I didn't want to do this, human, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to pull rank on you. I'm with the Mattress Police.
There are no tags on these mattresses.

Speaker 13 I hope you had some fun and learned some new stuff today. I hope at least one of those episodes was new for you.
Like

Speaker 13 every topic we cover on the channel, like every episode you saw today, each one was recommended by someone in the audience.

Speaker 13 So if there's a story you'd like to see, go to thewifiles.com/slash tips and let me know. And remember, the wife is also a podcast.

Speaker 13 Twice a week, I post deep dives into the stories we cover here on the channel, and I also post the occasional stories that wouldn't be allowed on the channel, at least not allowed on YouTube.

Speaker 13 Um, I don't even really want to say,

Speaker 13 well, they're called Unredacted, and I cover things like the World War II guy,

Speaker 13 the bad guy from World War II, how he possibly escaped and lived. That's a good episode.

Speaker 13 I did one on Aleister Crowley. Can't cover that on YouTube.
Definitely not for the kids, but stuff like that is up there.

Speaker 13 So it's called The Wife Files Operation Podcast, and it's available everywhere.

Speaker 13 Now, when our schedule is all mixed up like this and you're missing the Y Files, you can always check out our Discord server. We've got over 60,000 people on there.

Speaker 13 So 24-7, there's someone on there talking about all the crazy stuff we talk about here on the channel. And it's a community that's become, it's really become like a part of my family.

Speaker 13 It's a lot of fun. It's a very supportive community.
And it's free to join. So check it out.

Speaker 13 And special thanks to our amazing Patreon members who make all this possible and who allow me to take breaks like this. I could not do this channel without you.
I could not take these breaks.

Speaker 13 without your support and without your trust. And I appreciate you.
And the thing I'm most proud of is the community that we've built, our patrons have built. It's

Speaker 13 really mostly you. I'm just the guy who talks to the fish.
You guys are amazing.

Speaker 13 And if you're not part of our community and you'd like to join a very supportive group of amazing people, consider becoming a member on Patreon.

Speaker 13 For as little as three bucks a month, you get perks like episodes early with no commercials, access to merch that only members get.

Speaker 13 You get special access on Discord, access to certain channels that are only available to members. Plus on Discord, you get two live streams every week just for members.
And those are unique.

Speaker 13 Those are a lot of fun. That's my webcam is on like this.

Speaker 13 I'm here like this. Plus, you get to meet everybody else on the Wi-Fi's team.
So Gino, Jen, and Victoria, hybrid is on there. Mischief, everybody.

Speaker 13 You get to talk to and you can put your camera on, hop up on stage and interact with us, ask a question, make fun of Gino's hair, talk about Victoria's feet,

Speaker 13 whatever you want to do. But don't talk about my wife's feet.
I mean, I kind of want to. I kind of want to tell you about them, but she would kill me.

Speaker 13 I'm already pushing my luck with her with this episode. Fortunately, fortunately, she never watches this far, so I'm probably safe.

Speaker 13 Anyway, I think that's the best perk there is for being a Patreon member, other live streams. But another great way to support the channel is just grab something from the Wi-Fi store.

Speaker 21 Grab a Hegg OS t-shirt, or one of these coffee mugs for fisting or drinking or whatever you like to do with your leisure time.

Speaker 21 Or grab something with my face on it, or a deck of cards, or one of these squeezy animal Hegglefish target toy fishes.

Speaker 13 That's gonna do it. Until next time, be safe.
Be kind. Know that you are appreciated.

Speaker 17 Cause you are.

Speaker 73 I played Bolyphius and Arian 51. A secret code inside the Bible said I would.

Speaker 73 I love my UFOs and paranormal fun, as well as music, song singing like I should.

Speaker 73 Within another conspiracy theory becomes the truth, my friends.

Speaker 73 And it never ends.

Speaker 73 No, it never ends.

Speaker 73 I feel the crap guy down, got stuck inside Mel's home. With them chaotic trucks, I'm being only too aware.

Speaker 30 Did Stanley Kubernetes fake the moon landing alone

Speaker 30 on a film set?

Speaker 73 I wouldn't shadow people

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Speaker 13 The Roswell aliens just fought the smiling man,

Speaker 13 I'm told,

Speaker 36 and his name was cold.

Speaker 36 I can't agree.

Speaker 36 I'm dancing with the fish shit. And we'll fish on Thursday nights when they change you.
And we're about to be up through the night.

Speaker 36 All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth. And one ball's lovely all through the line.

Speaker 13 The Map Man sightings and the solar storm still come.

Speaker 36 But you've got the secret city underground.

Speaker 73 Mysterious number stations, planet Surfo to Project Stargate, and what the Dark Watchers found

Speaker 73 in a simulation, don't you worry though?

Speaker 73 The Black Knights had a lot of told me so

Speaker 73 I can't believe

Speaker 73 I'm dancing with the fears.

Speaker 73 Had no fish on Thursday, nights, Wednesday, J2. And the WAPA's wrapped by me all through the night.

Speaker 73 All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth. Took weapon, rubber feet, all through the night.

Speaker 73 Had no fish on Thursday, nights, Wednesday, Jews. Where mine flaming me all through the night.

Speaker 73 All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth. So we're

Speaker 73 beat all through the

Speaker 73 light.

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Speaker 73 because she is a camel.

Speaker 73 And camels love to dance when the feeling is right on waste in time.

Speaker 73 Gurdy loves to dance.

Speaker 73 Gurdy loves to dance.

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