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Raul Bilecky is a researcher, explorer, and creator of the YouTube channel “Pillars of the Past.” www.youtube.com/@PillarsofthePast101 https://www.patreon.com/PillarsofthePast www.pillarsofthepast.com
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Sidney D. Kirkpatrick, Lords of Sipan: A True Story of Pre-Inca Tombs, Archaeology, and Crime
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Raul, Joe, very nice to meet you, brother.
It's so good to be here.
I have enjoyed your content tremendously online.
And I really got into a video this morning that I was watching
where you found this megalithic site that was undocumented in Peru.
It's incredible that they still have these ancient sites that, for whatever
reason,
it seems like the money that they get gets stolen.
Like, the money that is supposed to be allocated towards documenting these
things
and registering these things, people just say, fuck it, I'm going to pocket it.
It happens a lot more than you think.
It's just hard to believe, man.
Some of the stuff that you document is very heartbreaking.
Like, one of them was when you flew a drone over these ancient ruins
and you showed the amount of places that have been looted.
Oh, yeah.
And it's just all of it.
It's just pop.
You see these holes.
And when I first saw that, I'm like, what is he showing me?
And then you're like, these are all spots where someone has dug in and looted.
And most of it has been done in this area of Peru over the last 20 years.
Over the last 20 years.
So from 2006 to 2026, more.
I would have the biggest amount of looting happened.
It's actually died down some.
But the end of the 20, so 1980s to 2010s, I would say.
That's when it really took off.
And you can tell from the trash that's left there.
Like, cigarettes that were only produced in the 80s.
Oh.
You know, soda bottles that were only produced in the 90s.
How nice of them to steal the artifacts and leave trash.
They've become landfills of human remains.
This place you're talking about is, I mean, it's eight full kilometers of just,
it looks like the moon.
Every single location has been looted.
And I was like, I got to go up there and see what this looks like.
And so.
Pull up to the microphone a little bit more.
So looting, what are they, at that point in time, I mean, these are hundreds,
thousands of years old, these sites.
So what are they finding?
Well, a lot of the mummies that I've, because I've found mummies that have been
torn, torn apart, literally.
Like, they're, the cotton that they're wrapped in, the textiles that they're
wrapped in.
I mean, it's just, they've been scavenged.
Are they looking for jewels?
Or for some sort of metallurgy, like, on the person themselves.
The unfortunate thing is, I mean, all you'll see is, you'll just see these
bones littered across the landscape with broken pieces of pottery.
That was also disturbing.
Like, how much bones you see everywhere.
So, this is, like, you see a bone right there.
These are all human bones that you just find scattered.
That's all cotton.
And what we're about to see here is an actual mummy that's been torn apart.
It's just, it's so sad that there's no protection.
Nobody's going out there, man.
Nobody.
Except for the looters.
But I know very little about Peru other than, you know, obviously the Nazca Lines,
the mummies, all these different things.
The mystery of the place.
Can you show on that, please?
The video is over.
Oh, it's over.
But there's a, there's a couple burial, burial drone shots.
But it's just.
You go to the top.
How big is Peru?
I don't even know geographically how large it is.
I mean, Peru is huge.
I mean, it takes up.
This is another, this is a different looted site.
So this is all, this, all of this is in the Paracas Nazca Ica region.
And these skulls are just sitting there?
So the looters will oftentimes leave, I don't know, set them up in this fashion.
There isn't a site I've gone to where I haven't seen something like set up like
this in the end.
But, so, I pull out to show the scale of it.
I mean, every little piece of white you see is some part of a human.
Wow.
It's tragic, man.
Just so much history lost.
Mm-hmm.
And so, does this stuff wind up in private collections?
Is, do museums ever get it?
Like, what happens to that stuff?
I don't think museums get it at all.
It's private, private buyers.
I actually met a, the term is guacero.
It's a grave robber.
I actually met one in Miraflores in Lima proper at one of the Artesanalis where
they're selling, you know, ancient goods.
Some of them have real things that they go out and they loot and, I mean, that,
this is one of the things I've been thinking about, like, for the future.
Like, what can be done about this?
Because the government, nobody from the government is going out there.
And so, these things end up in private collections, textiles, humans, pottery,
things that you would see in museums.
It's just nobody from that official administration is taking the trip to go out
there and preserve these things.
It seems like just the ancient civilization of Peru is a massive mystery.
It seems like there are a lot of uncovered stories in that area.
Peru is a hot spot.
And it doesn't seem like there's an incredible amount of research being done
other than by independent people.
They, I mean, so, Joe, there's just so much in Peru.
I mean, you throw a stone and you're finding an ancient archaeological site.
I mean, they're doing, whenever they do construction, they end up coming across
structures or bones.
I mean, this last expedition, I went all over the country and there is no lack
of archaeological sites.
So, the money and, I just, the money it would take to fund research on all
these places is just extreme.
It's extreme.
I think there's a lot of history that goes missed because of what's currently
happening.
But a lot of times, a lot of the research is focused on what's going to bring
tourism.
Right.
Like Machu Picchu and things along those lines, which is also insane.
Phenomenal.
It's just incredible.
Like, that place is like, what, why, how, why'd you build it up here?
Fucking nuts.
A good friend of mine just actually went, just recently took his family up to
Machu Picchu.
And he's like, it doesn't even make any sense, man.
Dude, Machu Picchu is what started, you know, my family's from Peru and so I
would grow up going there.
And I have this old, back when you were filming with cameras with like a videotape,
there's footage of me finding seashells at Machu Picchu.
What?
When I was like 10 years old.
Back then, you could go wherever you wanted.
You didn't have to stay on a path.
And so, I don't know.
And for people that don't know, Machu Picchu is like, what, 12,000 feet above
sea level?
12,000 feet, yeah.
Yeah.
And so, and so, I'm a kid.
I mean, I still have the foot, the grainy footage, and I'm showing my dad on
the camera.
I'm like, dad, dad, look, I found seashells.
You know, I saw them in, in, inside of, they were like glinting in the mud in
the wall.
And so, I took them out.
And that's what started this whole process for me.
I was just like, that, it blew my mind that there were seashells way up there.
And so, I studied about earth cataclysms and ancient history and when sea
levels were different.
And that just, that's, that is a moment that started kind of this whole path
for me.
How old were you at the time?
10 or 12.
Wow.
Wow.
So, how many times have you been there since?
Well, growing up, we used to go every year and a half or so, and that's
continued into my adulthood.
It's only been recently, the past two years, that I've been doing what I've,
what I've been doing, which is like hardcore solo expeditions.
And so, when you look at a site like Machu Picchu or, you know, any of these
ancient sites, what, what is the timeline that conventional archaeologists
attribute?
I mean, they, they attribute it to the Inca, which, you know, 14, late 1400s,
early 1500s, I think the Inca were conquered in, by the Spanish in 15, 1530, I
think.
And so, most of that megalithic architecture, they attribute it to the Inca.
However, there's evidence that, there's a site, Jamie, if you could pull it up,
it's called Vinyake.
This, this place is, there's megalithic architecture with precision that goes
down 50 feet under, under this mountain.
It's, it, check this out.
Whoa.
It's buried so deeply underneath.
This is crazy.
So, I believe they filled in the top to, in modern times, but they.
There's mortar at the top.
And very soon, there's going to be a guy who shows us a map.
That's incredible.
Wow.
And so, you see very different construction.
Very different construction.
From the bottom to the top.
But that's how it always is, right?
The most complex stuff.
So, that's, that's showing that this architecture here, it goes down 50 feet.
Into this mountain.
And what do they think this was?
So, this complex is all attributed to the Wari.
It's attributed to the culture that came right before the Inca, which doesn't
make much sense to me because what you see on the surface, that's Wari
construction.
Which is small stones.
Right.
And.
What are they held together with?
Mud, mortar.
Mud as mortar.
And, but then, so, this site has only been 4% excavated.
4%.
It's, underneath all of it is that type of architecture, which is crazy.
So, you have mud and mortar with very small stones, and then underneath it, you
have precision cut megalithic stones.
Yeah.
And how big are these stones, and where are they supposedly coming from?
That, so, here's a funny story.
So, this place, if you look, you can find it on Google Maps, it's, you know,
they call it the El Complejo de Wari, so the Wari complex.
But if you go back to the Spanish Chronicles, Pedro Seiza de Leon, when he was
in Tiwanaku, so Tiwanaku, where Pumapunku is in Bolivia,
when they ask the natives, you know, who built this, they say, we don't know,
it was built before us, from the people from the lake.
The same people who built Vinyake, that's what the natives said.
That place, Vinyake, is 800, 1,000 kilometers from Tiwanaku.
So, and it's the same construction, so it makes sense, kind of, what they're
saying.
The people who built Tiwanaku also built this place.
But before they know, before they knew that, they didn't witness it, it was
just there when they got there, is what the locals said.
Well, that's a lot of stuff, right?
That's part of the weirdness of South America.
Yeah.
And, you know, even Mexico, right?
Yeah.
That's the weirdness of the Aztec structures.
I didn't know that until pretty recently, that the Aztecs labeled, like, Tenochtitlan,
the place where the gods were born.
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
They don't attribute that to themselves.
To themselves.
They found it when they cleared the area.
I mean, you think about it, I've, still to this day, you know, I was up in Lake
Titicaca, and, I mean, there's structures all over the place.
But you're like, where were these people living?
And, because there's no remnants of cities or towns.
And the reason is, is because in modern times, people have recommissioned the
blocks and started to use them for their farms and their homes and things like
that.
You have a good location, a place of reverence, a place you're going to build,
the next culture is going to build on it, you know?
And I think that's happened a lot in a lot of places.
Yeah.
Well, everywhere, right?
I mean, that's Lebanon, too.
That's Baalbek.
It seems to be the case that those immense stones where the Romans built on top
of them.
I am.
The Roman documentation is pretty precise.
They documented everything.
They never talked about these enormous 1,000-ton stones that are seven meters
up in the air.
No, we're just going to put them in the base of our structure here, right?
Yeah, like, what?
They didn't even talk about them.
They talked about these beautiful structures that are on top of that are
clearly Roman.
But the stuff underneath it just defies logic.
And some of the stones that were never moved and put into place, that were cut
and quarried, but just never moved.
1,600 tons?
Like, how?
And things you can't replicate, you know, nowadays.
That's what's crazy.
Like, with modern machinery, we can't do it.
I mean, it's – I've always – when I started this path, you know, I was –
you know, Fingerprints of the Gods was one of the first books I picked up.
Me too.
My dad had it in his library, and that set me off on a course.
And – the inability to be able to – I don't know.
I don't buy the mainstream.
It feels a little bit lazy, the responses that the mainstream kind of gives to
some of this stuff, as opposed to just saying, I don't know.
It's purposely ignorant.
It's more than lazy, because if it was just lazy – I mean, they've been
confronted by all this other alternative archaeology evidence and all these
other people that have, like, explored these things and shown.
And there was always the conventional wisdom that there was no society back
then that was capable of doing this.
So they had to attribute it to more recent societies.
Until Gobekli Tepe.
Yeah.
And then you're like, OK, you guys need to shut the fuck up.
It's – I mean, the – there's a power in admitting, like, you're – if we're
looking for the truth here, then it's like, OK, we got this evidence that
disrupts this that we thought before.
All right, just say that.
Right.
You know what I mean?
Just say it.
It's fascinating that they can't, you know, because they are like every other
form of academia.
They are just like – I mean, you might as well be talking to a gender studies
teacher.
Just like they don't want to look at reality.
They just want their narrative and they want to be the gatekeepers of
information and then they just want to push that narrative forward.
And they're so mean.
Dude, it – I only started recently being on X within the past year and I'm
just like – the cattiness of it all, man.
Well, it just exposes them.
It exposes their personality and they're just not the type of people that I
want to talk to about anything.
Especially not – you're not the gatekeeper – if you're a 41-year-old person,
you're not the gatekeeper of ancient history.
You can't be.
There's too much.
There's too much all over the world.
It doesn't make sense.
None of it makes sense.
And that's, I think, why they're so terrified of people like Filippo Biondi and
the scans underneath the pyramids.
Because if he's right – and it appears he is – over 200 different
independent scans.
Yeah.
And they all say the exact same thing.
If he's right, you guys are fucked because you have to – you're going to
eventually have to say we're wrong.
You have a moment here where you can choose which direction to go.
Pretty soon that moment is going to be lost.
But it's like this is what the evidence has presented and, like you said,
verified over 200 different studies.
It's like, all right, we might be wrong.
Let's –
Right.
Meanwhile, they don't want to do that.
They're still digging their heels in and they're just discrediting themselves,
which is fascinating.
It's really interesting.
It's really interesting to watch these assholes just like flounder.
Well, and it makes me think, you know, what's the reason behind it?
Is it pride?
Is it ego?
Is it because you wrote some books on it that you need to keep selling?
Is it because it's in textbooks that universities use?
I mean, there's a lot of layers to it.
It's all the above, but you can tell just by the way they communicate online, a
lot of it is ego.
Yeah.
Yeah, a lot of it is ego and just really bad personalities.
You know, these people that are accustomed to never being questioned,
accustomed to being in the hierarchy of academia where, you know, you have
these tenured professors and then they have the people that are coming up under
them.
And they all follow the same sort of rigid structure.
And so any heterodox thinkers, anybody who comes in from outside the box, they
just get shit all over.
You know, there's no open-mindedness.
I don't know if this is like a parable or something, but, you know, I don't
know, some story where there's a truck going into a tunnel and it gets stuck.
And it's backing up traffic and nobody can get through.
Everybody's trying to figure out what the hell how to get this truck through.
And just, you know, some farmer walks up and he's just like, take the air out
the tires.
And problem solved.
And so the inability to let other people come in with thoughts and opinions, it
just, it really, I think it's a real detriment to the study of these things.
Because in my approach to some of the places I've gone, I think it is that, yes,
we have research.
Yes, there is a level of understanding at a lot of these places what happened.
But it's also that going into it with a fresh set of eyes, you know, sometimes,
I mean, I get so locked in my work sometimes I can't see outside of it.
You know, sometimes it takes another party to come in and all of a sudden your
mind is blown in a completely different direction.
I don't see that level of openness to things on the side of a lot of the
mainstream academia when it comes to this stuff.
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Well, people have to really understand that the whole concept of mainstream
academia is only a few hundred years old.
And that's what's weird.
It's like, so these very recent structures, these very recent establishments,
want to be the gatekeepers of information of a vast swath of the world.
I mean, it's not possible.
It's not possible that you know everything.
It's not.
I was thinking about that.
You know a lot.
They know a lot about things they have discovered.
They do.
They know a lot about Mesopotamia.
They know a lot about Iraq.
All the amazing stuff that they find.
Some stuff they've very accurately dated.
But it doesn't explain things that you can't explain.
And they want to try to just fit it.
That's what's goofy.
Yeah, that's, I mean, look, if the puzzle piece doesn't fit, stop trying to
force it.
Well, it's also, it's like more gigantic, spectacular pieces.
And you're like, well, those aren't important.
I mean, Ben Van Kirkwijk with this most recent discoveries where they're using
the ground penetrating radar to find the labyrinths.
And this 40-meter-long metallic object that's inside of an atrium down there.
Like, what is that thing?
Yeah, I have my, I hope it's something, my, my, if, if whatever, if they go
looking, and I hope they do.
And this is the other thing.
It's like, let's start putting money towards this, like, now.
You know what I mean?
Right.
Like, figure this out.
I don't know why I thought of this.
I think it might be a meteorite.
If it's some sort of, like, metallic thing.
40-meter-long meteorite.
I know, I know.
That's a fucking civilization ender.
But, and imagine the next civilization coming across that thing.
Right.
And hearing the stories.
It's like, shit, let's worship this.
Or, like, let's revere it somehow and put it in an atrium.
Well, like Mecca.
It's just my thought.
Yeah, exactly.
Right?
Exactly.
Like, there's a meteorite.
This one's 40 meters.
Yeah, there's a meteorite at Mecca that they all go to touch.
Yeah.
Which is kind of crazy, right?
Yeah.
But completely makes sense, right?
Yeah.
Something comes from the sky, it lands, causes chaos, and then you worship it.
I mean, that, also, wasn't one of, like, King Tut's knives was made out of a
meteorite or something like that?
Yeah.
I mean, so they were finding these things.
Mm-hmm.
40-meter one is pretty big, though.
I know.
But also, tic-tac-shaped.
That's the other thing.
I'm like, so when it comes, I'm just like, let's go.
Let's go.
Well, you know, that's part of the Bob Lazar lore.
I remember.
Bob Lazar said that when he was told that at least one of these things came
from an archaeological dig.
Like, what?
What do you mean?
He's like, that's what they were telling me.
I don't know.
But they told me that one of them was from an archaeological dig.
Yeah.
So these things are really old.
Dude, and his accuracy was something with the element 118.
115.
115, something like that.
From 1989.
Yeah.
When element 115 wasn't even discovered until the 2000s.
I mean, that's why when he's, I forget who I was talking to outside, but we
were talking about, I think it was talking to Jamie about that, about Bob Lazar
talking about some of these things coming from an archaeological sites.
Yeah.
Let's go find it.
Right.
You know what I mean?
Well, that's where it gets really weird.
Where it gets really weird is these mummies.
Oh, we're going to go to the mummies.
We're going to go there, Jamie.
Eric Burleson, a representative, talking about how he's asked the White House
to give DOD the power to let them go see this stuff, including a buried UFO.
Reportedly, an object that is not in this country, that is so large, it cannot
be moved, that they've built an entire building around it.
And I think that, I think either Greer or another individual has actually
mentioned this site, but I'm not going to mention it because it is a classified
location.
But there is a really apparent, there's reported a really large object, and
that's one of the locations that I'm requesting to get to.
It's going to involve a lot to get to make that happen, but that may be the
final destination.
Shit like that makes me want to run for president, because that's all I would
care about.
The economy would be in shambles.
I'd be like, show me the UFOs.
Do you think, do you think they'd do it?
Because I've heard that like the...
No, they'd kill me.
I mean, on that need-to-know basis where they're keeping stuff from presidents,
you know, Kennedy got too close.
I don't think that's what they killed Kennedy for, but I think there's a bunch
of things.
No, there's a whole lot of layers.
Yeah, but the UFO people love to think that it's UFOs, that's why they killed
Kennedy.
But they think everything's UFOs.
But it definitely seems like, I don't know about the evidence, you know,
because it's just stories.
And that's the problem, is that a lot of this stuff, and this is how I feel
when a lot of people come on the podcast and talk to me, you know, supposed
whistleblowers.
Some of them, I think, are legitimate, and some of them, I think, are disinformation
specialists.
I think they're designed to muddy up the water, and this is, you know, what
they're saying is designed to muddy up the water, and that's what they're
trying to do.
They're trying to make a lot of this stuff look silly, and push certain
narratives, and just create confusion.
And I think a lot of it is probably some black budget, weird science stuff that
we have.
But then it begs the question, where'd you get that?
Is that really, like, the Diana Pasolka work, where she's talking about there,
essentially these things are donations, and that we're supposed to, like, take
these things and try to figure it out?
And then you look at some of the creation of some different inventions that
happened very quickly after Roswell.
Our civilization just, I mean, just been on a boom ever since.
Yeah, weird stuff, like the fiber optic stuff and transistors, just the history
of the creation of the transistor, and the people that were involved in it,
seems awful fucking fishy.
I mean, I try to stick with what I, evidence that I can make out tangibly, and
it just gets so murky, like you said.
It just, all of this gets so murky that I don't, I don't know how the truth
would even land, you know?
Well, the truth would have to land if there was an overall comprehensive effort
by all of the world governments.
And there would have to be some sort of unity in this, and some sort of, like,
a recognition that this is really important for the entire human population to
understand our past.
And if this is nonsense, let's find out that it's nonsense.
And if this is real, this changes everything.
And when you look at, just look at the vastness of the cosmos, it's not outside
of the realm of possibility that this stuff either came from somewhere else or
was here because they were here.
That there was an advanced civilization here, whether it's our civilization or
whatever the hell those mummies are.
You know, because the tridactyl mummies are weird.
We can talk about that because I went, I did a deep dive with my friend Will,
and there is too much amok going on with these things for me to objectively say
that they are what people are claiming them to be.
There's too much wrong with this, with the picture.
Right.
Well, first of all, a lot of them are fake.
Yeah.
For sure.
Oh, yeah.
A lot of them, people have seemingly created with a bunch of different animal
bones.
And human bones.
And human bones.
And pieced them together.
But then there's the weird ones.
You know, there's the weird ones that are mummified and they're in the fetal
position and you see a structure that doesn't exist in the human body, but it's
complete with tendons and ligaments.
And some of them have eggs inside of them.
That, Joe, I'm telling you, man, I, look, I want to believe.
Do you think it's bullshit?
I think it is much closer to bullshit than it is.
All of them?
I think what we're dealing with here are real human beings from the past.
They are ancient that have been put together.
Will, from Incredible History, has done some amazing work with some amazing
specialists.
I mean, people at the top of their field on this stuff, looking at the x-rays
and the DICOM files and calling out cuts, calling out incisions that were made,
calling out why things don't make sense.
And, for me, the reason I put out my last video on the Nazca mummies is because
there's this whole other narrative, too, of where the money is, who's making
money off of these things.
And I think that...
Is there money being made off those little mummies?
Please.
You got something?
Yeah.
So, I remember, I forget who you were talking to, it might have been Jesse
Michaels, but I remember you saying, you know, these are one of the greatest
art projects, if they were fake.
Right.
Well, if you just scroll to the right here, this is what the...
That's the goofy one.
Yeah, but that's what the walkero is selling.
He sent that to me personally, the guy selling these things.
These goofy-ass...
This is for people at home.
You can't see it?
There's a folder on there that has the pictures in the photos.
These are the goofy ones.
But what is the one that is the female that's in the...
Maria.
Is that what they're calling it?
Yeah.
Maria is one of them.
I mean, so, Will had on Dr. William Morrison and Dr. Proctor, Dr. Wilson.
I mean, like, people in the top of their field analyzing these things and...
This one looks fake as fuck.
Yeah, yeah, everybody.
You can get this for $15,000.
This comes directly from the walkero finding these things, by the way.
Yeah.
I did, like, a little undercover thing, trying to see what I could lure out of
him.
See, this is not particularly compelling to me, but...
But it's in the same class coming from the same place, supposedly.
The same group of people are providing these things to the...
Yeah, this is in the Ica Museum.
This is where they're housed.
What is it, Monserrat?
Is that what the...
Monserrat, yeah.
Monserrat.
So, these are, like, again, these are not that compelling to me.
The small ones, no.
The big ones...
So, the big ones, though, are...
Gosh, they keep coming out with new specimens.
There's a new one, Antonio, who's a teenage boy, except for his feet.
His feet are...
Have arthritis in them, which indicates that they put the foot bones of another
specimen on this thing.
Now, what these doctors have done...
Look, and here's the thing.
I mean, I want to be clear.
I would love nothing more than...
Of course.
Peru to be the hot spot of some new species.
I don't think we're alone.
I don't think we've identified every species.
But also, I'm not putting my money on these things coming out as authentic.
I think they have been used with authentic bones, which is why they're getting
the dates.
So, I think that...
Dude, I did a deep dive on this stuff.
Please, go.
No, feel free.
Tell me.
Tell me what you found out.
I initially wasn't going to make the video I did, but after spending days
staying up doing this research, I couldn't not do it.
And I found, like, I even watched the whole Gaia series on this stuff, and I
found myself, like, getting entranced by the, like, maybe, maybe.
And then also watching...
The whole reason of putting this stuff out there is, like, look, make your own
decision, but don't just take in the fantasy.
Take in the other possibilities, too.
And just have all the information before you make your decision.
Well, clearly, we know some of them are fake.
Clearly.
Clearly.
You know, even people like me who want so desperately to believe.
And it's also the corresponding artwork from the past, the three-toed, three-fingered
artwork, which is weird.
That is weird, and I saw some of those geoglyphs down there in the middle of
nowhere, you know, and so, and then the whole thing with, you know, the, with
James Fox and the Brazil incident.
Yeah, Virginia.
And that thing, you know, the three-fingered thing is a weird thing in history.
With these bones, I mean, I'm going to have to point you to some of the videos
that these specialists have come out analyzing the files.
So, but where the money is, is exactly what's happening now.
It's, it's, we have this possibility.
We're going to make a show about it.
We're going to put out this new thing.
We're going to, it goes, it goes deep, Joe.
The same doctors, the same specialists that are verifying, currently, the Nazca
mummies, have been on the same team for the past 20 years, verifying other
species and specimens that they, alien hybrids and the same people, literally,
my whole video, I'm just like, this is what he said in 2007.
This is what he said about this fake thing in 2012.
This is what he said about the fake thing in 2017.
And I put it back to back.
So, it's the same narrative.
Same people.
It's the same people, the same narrative.
And so, you think that the construction has just gotten more sophisticated?
100%.
100%.
They learn.
What is that, the major one?
Maria and Montserrat.
Well, look at, let's find Montserrat and see the Jesse Michaels stuff because
he went down there and looked at them and they did scans on the bodies and.
And then if, I have a link to, I think it's Dr. Morrison talking about Montserrat's
feet, the x-rays of his feet and pointing out, that's on the spreadsheet.
Well, let's see that.
I'd like to see that.
So, do you think that these are recent creations of old bones?
Is that what it is?
That's what I think.
Okay.
And how do you think they did it?
Is there any speculation?
I think that, so there, so here's the.
What's that, Jimmy?
Just asked him a question.
I cut him off.
Oh.
How do you think they did it?
How do you think they did it?
Well, I think that they, I think they've gotten very good with taxidermy.
Hmm.
Right.
Like, cause we've seen that before where you take like an owl and you attach it
to an iguana.
In fact, in, in the research I did, there was this, dude, there was this demon
fairy thing in 2017.
If you want to pull up my, my video.
Let's start with this.
Let's start with this.
We'll get to the demon fairy thing soon.
Talk about that.
This shit is wild.
So meta.
Okay.
This is a, from a surface scan that was available.
And I went in and just kind of removed some of the fuzziness so that I could
highlight the bones.
And one of the things, again, that you notice is that the joints have a lot of
spacing between them.
These are not joints that are in contact.
So they're dislocated.
Now, the main, the main part here, this, the central area where the cuneiforms
are in the cuboid,
those articulate with five metatarsals normally, um, the way the, the way these
are lettered,
A would go with the big toe and E would go with the little toe.
And, uh, again, just like in Maria, those are missing, but the joints are not
lined up properly.
Um, the, the shapes of the joints don't, don't go with the, uh, matching bone
on the cuneiforms
or the cuboid.
Um, that's exactly what I was seeing in CT.
So none of the articulations of the, the metatarsal junction really made any
sense.
And some of the bones didn't even meet an articular surface at all.
So that jumped out to me immediately because then my first, um, question goes
to how would
that even be a functional foot?
So Montserrat, that's.
So that's, why does Montserrat have tendons?
Click on that.
Keep it going a little bit.
Where I thought I saw the raise resection, um, cause people were talking about
there still
being tendons and stuff intact.
And I would agree that some of those metatarsals are, as Dr. Proctor pointed
out in the correct
position, but then some are just missing.
So if you wanted to elevate the illusion, one of the ways you could do that
would be by performing
a raise resection.
And essentially that's a function conserving surgery where if you've had damage
to your
metacarpals or your metatarsals, they'll remove that metacarpal or metatarsal
and kind
of rearrange your fingers or your toes and the remaining metacarpals to keep
your limb
functioning.
So her feet, Montserrat's feet were just a little bit different where I think
they might
have used more, um, complex procedure like that versus Maria where her feet
just looked
more like, um, arts and crafts to my eye.
So, and that's the, so Maria came up.
And if these things are, are, are hoaxes, there is also, if we're just going
with that
angle, there's a clear evolution of the work that goes into them behind the
scenes.
Like that one came out after the first one, the first one got called out on a
whole bunch
of things.
All of a sudden the next iteration doesn't have the same issues.
Right.
They're correcting.
Yeah.
And so, and that, and that's actually, uh, I forget there was, there was an
archeologist
on X.
He said that's very common in, in the world of fake antiquities.
Like they learn once they get called out on something, they'll figure out how
to make the
pottery better or something like that.
Is there a lot of money in this stuff?
Yeah.
I mean, apparently, uh, where's the money coming from?
How does it, for me, it's not even in, in the, it's not in the sale.
The most money coming from this is not in the sale of these things.
It's in the shows that come from it.
It's in the series.
It's in the subscriptions to get to the next season where they're going to tell,
finally
reveal the truth about it.
There's a lot of money being made in the background with, and that's part of
the deep dive I went
on, like following the money.
So who do you think is making them?
Do you have a theory?
Uh, I believe that, uh, there's actually, uh, it was in, it was in my video and
one of
Will's videos.
There was a grave robber, a whistleblower grave robber who was part of this
team.
And he shares how, um, he was getting stuff for Mario, like the main guy.
I, there's gotta be a team of specialists working on this stuff.
And I mean, money went into money, went into making these things cause money's
going to
come from it.
I mean, that's seems like a lot of money though.
Yeah.
But you would think that that would kind of fall apart.
I would, I would think that it is falling apart, but it is under scans.
But I would, I would say like someone would rat somebody out.
Like these are inscrupulous.
So that's part of the reason I also decided to make this video.
And, and a lot of the pushback on this stuff is like, oh, you don't, you don't
trust, you
know, uh, Latin American doctors or anything.
No, it's, it's, it's not that it's Latin American doctors from Peru and, and
journalists
from, they're afraid to talk about this stuff because things can get violent
down there.
Surrounding this topic.
Article from 2012 about a mummy being stolen.
And it goes on to talk about, um, there's a, I said right at the bottom.
The Eka Mafia.
Yeah, there's a mafia.
The Eka Mafia.
And in fact, the guy, Mario, who, um.
There you go.
Officials have warned about the existence of a mafia dedicated to the trade
with links throughout
Southern America and Europe.
And at the time it was $18 million a year in stolen archeological artifacts
Peru estimated
was being taken out of the country.
So this is all going to like wealthy people in other countries that want to
have these artifacts
in their homes?
Yeah.
I've seen the text messages with some of the American buyers.
Really?
Yeah.
So these guys are just like, come on into my den.
I'm going to show you a mummy.
The, the, what I'm talking about specifically was, um, tapestries and, and it
was actually
the guy I met in the artisanalis in Miraflores and, and he showed me video.
He was very open with me.
He showed me videos of, uh, because the, the buyers want to see provenance.
The buyers want to see them pulling the, the artifacts out of the ground.
Right.
So they just bury them and then they just.
Well, no, I mean.
Mummy crowdfunder leaves archeologists fuming.
So there's a guy in London that's selling this stuff.
So Victor Wynn's museum in London.
Huh.
It's a cabinet dedicated to dead people and they were trying to get a mummy
from Peru.
Wow.
So it's, um, what do you think is going on with the skulls, the elongated skulls?
If you, Jamie, I have, uh, um, I think that that's one I've found.
So here's one.
You found that one?
Oh yeah.
That's one of three I've come across.
Now there, supposedly there's a difference in the way the, the skull, you know,
when you're
a child, what is it called?
The sagittal, the sutures.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I found some, uh, without the, I, I, I, I, every elongated skull that I've, the
three
I've come across all had the sagittal, all had that suture.
Like a normal human does.
Like a normal human.
So these would be from pressing boards on the child's head when they're in
development.
Yeah.
Binding.
Yeah.
But then the question is why would you do that?
And I mean, I err on the side of, you don't just come up with that.
You're trying to imitate something.
Right.
You know?
And so that, that's, um, and then you see it in Egypt and the hieroglyphs and
stuff.
So I, I, I do think like there is, you know, there's, we've, we've labeled
things other
species with just a bone fragment, you know, I'm like there, there's, there's
deserts of
these things.
And, and I think that if the right study went to them, you might have a
separate species.
If, if you put the money towards studying this stuff, cause it's all out there,
man.
It's right.
Like a separate branch of the human species.
Possibly.
Yeah.
Right.
Which makes sense.
I mean, they're finding separate branches all the time.
All the time.
The Denisovans, you know, all the, all these different ones that they've been
found within the last 20 years and there could be something with a larger head
and
the elongated head.
Yep.
And that's the, um, I don't know enough about osteo, whatever to go in depth
about
it, but it, I mean, I think you had whole cultures just doing this or there's,
there's
too many of them for it to have just been kind of some elitist practice, I
think.
And a bizarre practice at that.
Like, why would you want to do that to your kid's head when clearly it's
probably not
been done to your head, at least the first people?
Like, what were you trying to imitate?
There, um, I forget who told me this.
Uh, there is some, I think Will told me this.
There's, there's some woman who, who did this practice on herself, like
actually trepanated
her own head to, um...
Yeah, we've talked about that.
Yeah.
Well, we've talked about trepanation when we had that woman on to herself.
Okay.
Well, wait, so you had her on?
Yeah.
Well, a woman who did, what was her name again?
The psychedelic lady.
She's, I believe she passed, didn't she?
Recently?
Really fascinating woman.
Amanda Fielding.
Amanda Fielding.
Yeah.
She, she died recently, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, uh...
But she did self-trepanation.
She did self-trepanation.
Uh...
But that's not elongation of the skull.
No, but if, there's an idea that, what that trepanation might have done, in, in
the ancient
days they did it, like, to release the evil spirits if somebody was afflicted
with some
sort of psychosis or something like that, uh, but, and I forget if it was
Amanda, um, something
happens in, in, in, with your brain waves when, like, the brain is exposed or
something
like, there's some sort of, I, I don't know, uh...
How the fuck do you find that out without doing it?
But if the skull is elongated, I don't know if it gives extra space to, uh...
I forget who told me this, but it, like, changes the, the chemical, uh,
structure of the brain
that, like, kind of like a DMT experience, you're open to more things.
Uh-huh.
And so, an idea, an idea is that if you elongated it and had that extra space
in the skull for
the brain to have more oxygen, I guess, uh, maybe it affects your brain
chemistry.
I don't know.
Just pure speculation.
Pure, pure speculation.
But one of the things about some of these skulls they found is that the volume
is larger
than a, than a human brain.
That's true.
So, how would you do that just by stretching it out with boards?
I mean, it would seem like you have the same volume, you're just changing the
shape of it,
right?
That, yeah, but there are, there are some, like you said, that have more volume.
That would appear to have more volume.
And, uh, have there been no studies on these weird ones, the ones that don't
have those
sagittal lines that, that correspond with human babies?
Uh, because some of them don't, right?
Fringe studies, I think.
That's the problem.
That is, that is the problem.
What are we looking at?
Are we looking at an animal head that they've kind of, like, shoved onto, like,
human features
and glued things together?
Oh, with the, with the mummies?
With, I mean, some of these skulls.
Well, I mean, some of the, like, like, the one you just saw.
I mean, they're, they're there, um, they're, they're just out in the desert.
I don't know why funding hasn't been.
And you found them, just sitting there.
Yeah.
And you just leave them there?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I put a pin on, I mean, eventually one day I would like to, um, I don't know,
form some
sort of relationship with the Ministry of Culture, because the thing is, nobody's
going out there.
And, and I, I specifically went to places this last expedition that I went the
first year,
just to see what happened a year later.
And those places were looted even more.
The things I had found and come across and documented, like an elongated skull,
wasn't there anymore.
So these things are being taken and sold.
Makes you wonder how much of it was there in the past.
Dude.
I mean, I don't, like, that eight kilometers of looting, it was all bones and
textile and pottery.
And I, I mean, just eight full kilometers and, like, people must see.
So it's an eight kilometer graveyard?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, boy.
When I'm looking up trepanation.
Oh, that's a weird one.
This elongated skull is coming up.
Apparently this one is in Oklahoma, a museum of some kind.
That's the one that looks like it's had surgery on it.
Yeah.
And there's, like, some sort of a metal implant.
And it's come up in that, in that context.
Like, this one's coming up, too, but what they're saying is that the metal
implant is used after trepanation's been done to sort of patch the bone.
Sometimes that has been, that has been documented as happening.
What kind of metal are they using on your fucking head?
Well, that's the weird thing, too, because that metal has come up in the skull
scans on, like, Montserrat.
I don't know which one in particular had it, but they're saying it's got, like,
metal that wasn't available, you know.
What's that one on the lower left-hand corner?
That one looks crazy.
Oh, that's the Chungo skull.
What's that?
Okay, so that one looks different.
Yeah, that's...
It says it's in Paracas.
I mean, that's...
Click on that.
It's very close to where I found the one I showed you from my footage.
Okay, that skull looks nuts.
So that doesn't look like a human skull at all.
No.
That one is...
Like, look at the lines on that one.
That's fucking crazy.
Yeah.
That doesn't seem like it has any of the normal lines that a human skull has.
The museum, unfortunately, is closed now, so you can't go see it.
I tried to.
Well, where is it?
It was in Paracas.
The Ministry of Culture shut down that museum.
Oh, the collection often exceptionally elongated skulls found in Paracas,
particularly around
the village of Changos, near Pisco, dating to around 700 BCE to 200 CE.
His skulls exhibit severe artificial cranial deformation, practice used by
elite Paracas culture members to signify status.
Huh.
That is the one we just saw in that museum is the largest one.
But it's weirdly large.
Can you find some more images of that one?
I was trying to find some other stuff that's not three years old or older.
Oh, it's okay.
Let's just see the images of it.
It might be hard for that one since the museum closed.
Right, but there's images.
Yeah.
So, that looks like it's a lot more volume than a human head.
The one on the far left, just the one, yeah, either one, the one below it.
Like, that, just the image alone of that, how do you get a normal human head to
be that large?
Without some sort of, I mean, if it's a...
It looks like you stuffed a balloon into someone's eyeball and kept pumping it
up, you know, while they're a baby.
Like, what the hell is that?
That's so much bigger than a normal human skull.
And then you think if it, you know, with the skull binding practice, I mean,
are you, is there going to be some form of mental difficulties with that human
being now?
If it's a human being?
Or expanded capacity.
Or expanded, yeah.
Yeah.
Because I think, so the cranial capacity is 25% more than a normal skull.
It weighs 50% or 60% more than a normal skull.
Also, the eye sockets are larger and the jaw is larger and more compact.
God, that looks like a different kind of human.
So there's, there are, and when you go to these museums, there's all sorts of,
there's, what's that one up there?
The one to the right of your cursor?
What the fuck is that?
Is that real?
That's why I was, I didn't want to go here.
Whoa.
I was bringing up a bunch of fake shit too.
That's why I was trying to.
Is that fake?
I haven't seen that one before.
I don't, I mean, it taking me to Facebook is already a big red flag.
Yeah.
I know.
Facebook is a hub of fake shit.
Oh, man.
I can't escape it on that.
It's the same picture.
So a lot of them are probably AI generated.
But that one that's 25% larger than a normal human skull and larger eyes.
Look, the eye sockets are fucking huge.
That's also weird.
It's just like, that's the problem with all this looting that's been going on
for so many
years.
It's like they, there might have been some evidence of a different kind of
human that lived
with these people.
And I mean, imagine if we find out that that different kind of human was what
populated
that area.
And they were the people that built Sacsayhuaman and.
Because Paracas isn't, Paracas is the highest concentration of the ones that
have been found.
But you find them up in the Cusco region, too.
There's, there's a video I have, I think, I think it's Chisniri, C-H-I-S-I-N.
Can I ask you, what is the conventional explanation for the larger capacity of
the skull and then
the larger eyeballs, the eye sockets?
I don't know that there is a conventional explanation other than.
It seems like you would have to explain that.
Like if that's not something different.
Deeth cranial.
Homo sapien human being like you or me, what is that?
That seems, that's a different thing, right?
You would think.
Right.
Like if you look at a Neanderthal skull and you look, mine's pretty close to
one.
But if you look at a Neanderthal skull and a normal human skull, you can
clearly see the
Denisovans.
You clearly see the difference.
Homo julians, you see the difference.
That's different, man.
It's different.
And some of this, some of this stuff in their, in their jaws and with like the
set of teeth,
there's differences.
I mean, I haven't done a deep dive into it personally.
But there are a multitude of differences that have been highlighted.
And for people that are skeptical, one thing you have to recognize is that it's
really hard
to make a fossil.
Fossils, we, I mean, most things that die and have died forever do not become
fossils.
They get consumed by the earth like a normal thing would.
You know, that's why you don't find.
I mean, yeah, yeah.
And I mean, if you're talking about going back 10,000 years, that's why you're
not, you're
not seeing much evidence of stuff.
I mean, it's been so long.
These, these things are preserved because they're between at, at most,
typically at most 2000 ish
years in that region old.
They're preserved so well because of the climate there, which is, I mean, when
you're going
in these barrows, you still see the hair of people.
It hasn't disintegrated.
Like it's, it's there.
God, it's so creepy.
Dude, I have some creepy photos for you, man.
Like, I don't know.
You might want to put a disclaimer up before you show it something.
No, show them.
People know on this show, you don't need a disclaimer.
Here's a quick question.
I found a video of a guy with an elongated skull.
He's talking about these and showing it.
I'm just, besides a reference to his hand, does the skull seem small?
It does.
Unless he's got some giant ass basketball player hands.
That's kind of the size of the one I, I, the one I showed you earlier.
It was smaller than you would think.
But a lot of the people there back then were very small, right?
They didn't have access to a lot of protein.
Like I went to Chichen Itza and one of the weirder things is how small the
people are there.
How small the Mayan people, I'm short already and I was a giant compared to
these people.
It was really weird.
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Same in Peru until when the Spanish came.
And then the interbreeding.
And then interbreeding, yeah.
Yeah.
But if you go, Jamie, if you just open up the photos remains folder, this is
the stuff you see.
I mean, there's still skin on some of these things, like, which is why.
Whoa, that's creepy.
Yeah, man.
And how old is that hand?
Probably, I mean, at this burial site, based on the artifacts I was seeing, it's
Paracas or Nazca.
Go back one, Jamie, please.
Yeah, yeah.
Hold on one second.
Look at the cloth next to it, too.
So what is that piece of cloth, you think?
Ah.
It's like it's braided at the bottom and then the—
I didn't see a hole in the middle, so I don't think it was a—and it's too
fancy for a sling, I think.
So I'm not 100% sure.
Unless it's a fancy sling.
Like some people have fancy bows and arrows, fancy guns.
True, true.
Look at the hand, man.
That's so crazy.
And what you see to the right of it is, like, what kind of looks like burlap is—I
mean, that's what the mummies were wrapped in.
They were stuffed with cotton or put in the fetal position, wrapped with
textile, then cotton, then more textile and ropes, and that's some of the
cotton and wrapping that—
The grave robbers had torn apart, trying to find gold and jewels and things
like that.
And what's unfortunate is some of the most beautiful pottery there, too.
It's just completely destroyed.
Wow.
Whoa.
Look at all those bones.
This is—you found this?
Yeah.
God, that's got to be creepy just seeing all those dead people's bones and rope.
It affects you, man.
It definitely does.
And what's the time period of this?
This is 2,000 years.
This—that picture actually isn't from NASCA.
That was another—I have a video of this to show you, this place.
There's just so much weirdness about Peru, just the NASCA lines alone.
Like, what were they doing?
Why were you making artwork you can only see from the sky?
That's crazy.
Oh, look at the hair.
That's nuts.
Oh.
Normal-sized skull, though.
Actually, that one, I don't have the pictures in that folder, but I measured it.
It's incredibly bulbous.
It's much more bulbous than a normal skull.
So you're just getting a side view of it?
Yeah, and I put the tape measurer there next to it.
That's crazy.
You see the skin.
Yeah, isn't it?
The skin and the hair on the skull.
Oh, God.
That's creepy.
It's why, yeah.
I mean, that—you know, I thought that I had gotten—this is another thing
that's been set up.
And you think the grave robbers do this?
You know, there were some places where I found things set up like this with
little candy, little modern candies.
And what that is, is it's a tradition called pago la tierra, paying the land.
And so whoever left the candy, I don't think was a grave robber, was probably a
local—and it's a way of giving back to the land, giving back to the ancestors.
I started doing that with, you know, if I had a soda bottle or something, you
pour out some Coca-Cola, pay the land for walking to it and documenting the
stuff.
It was a nice little practice, but—so the—I would say that, like, 2,000-ish
years old, just to circle back.
So some of these things—this is all on the surface.
I don't go digging.
That's not—it's not on me.
But the Wakeros do.
And that's where they're finding these things intact.
They're finding these things intact where you can put them into a CT scanner,
and it's going to show the whole insides.
Has any—have any paleontologists done—or archaeologists brought these skulls
and brought them for examination to try to find out if there's intact DNA that
can be studied?
They're supposed to be doing DNA tests on six of the specimens, but if you
watch my video, you'll see each time they've done DNA tests on all the hoaxes
that they've been a part of before, I imagine the results are going to be the
same.
Yeah, but I don't mean the hoaxes.
I mean the elongated skulls with large eye sockets, things along those lines.
You know, there is a lot of—the bureaucracy of how to go about doing anything
with the Ministry of Culture in Peru is—it's so disjointed.
You can't get things done.
You just can't get—I know Brian Forrester for decades was trying to get some
sort of official path to do DNA studies.
And so I mean I'm hoping with the work that I'm doing with Pillars of the Past
that some of those boundaries can be broken where we can actually get
permission to study these things because it's Peru's patrimony.
You know, you can't just go in there and, you know—
Right, right.
That makes sense.
And so—and it costs money to do those things too.
And you have to do it in the above-board way.
And so it's kind of waiting for the okay from them.
Well, it seems like at the very least the most bizarre elongated skulls should
be studied more closely.
I agree.
It shouldn't just be like, oh, it's in a museum.
Look at the head.
Big, huh?
Weird eyes.
Let's move on.
Look at this bowl.
It's broken but, you know, pretty interesting.
Let's move on.
Like, no, what the fuck is going on with that head?
Let's put some money, figure it out, and—
Because if it turns out that there was a totally different branch of the human
species—
It's huge.
It's huge.
What's up?
I don't know the accuracy.
That's why I'm hesitant to even bring it up.
But as you're asking about that, that video I pulled up is—this guy said that
they tested 12 or 18 skulls.
That's Forrester.
And some of them came back as Native American.
I'm trying to—I'm reading the closed captioning, but some of them did not.
Some of them came back from the Black Sea area.
Yeah, the Caspian Sea, Black Sea area from 2,000 to 3,000 years ago.
Which there have been skulls found out in those areas, too.
Wow.
I don't know what to say.
Black and Caspian Seas, as in the Caucasus Mountains.
Whoa.
So that's very intriguing.
What I can also share with you is what I believe was the migrational pattern,
because these people, like some indigenous people of the Caspian area and Black
Sea area,
were and are dark red-haired and also very light skin and green eyes.
And this seems to correspond as well with the elongated skulls.
So I believe what happened about 3,000 years ago, the ancestors of the Paracas
decided to leave the area because they were being invaded by someone.
And so they traveled south through Iraq and Iran to the Persian Gulf.
And there they wound up sailing eastwards and eventually found their way to the
coast of Peru.
They're different.
That's speculation.
That'd be tough.
So that's the thing.
With theories like this, I'm like, let's put some effort to peer review this
stuff.
You know, like, let's do the studies that are needed, have multiple
universities test these things,
come up with a standard set of results, and then, I mean...
So what is missing?
Funding?
Interest?
It seems like this is...
In terms of, like, really doing a comprehensive study of archaeological sites,
Peru seems like the least studied.
Is that accurate?
Halfway, I would say, only because...
Look, there's a part of me that also feels for the Ministry of Culture in a way
where there's so many sites in Peru
that to have eyes everywhere, to protect it, to have teams excavating things
every...
I mean...
Isn't that alone kind of crazy, how many sites there are in Peru?
And the fact that also you have Sacsayhuaman, you have the Nazca Lines, you
have all this weirdness in this one part of the world.
Like, why?
You have the oldest stone pyramids in the Americas,
pyramids that predate the Pyramids of Giza by 1,000 years.
What do they look like?
If you look up Corral, they are...
Dude, I've done a whole thesis on this.
Like, I plan to write a...
I don't think I'll ever get it peer-reviewed, but I plan to write a paper about
my theories on some of the stuff I found.
So Corral was this area on the coast.
It's C-A-R-A-L, and these pyramids had...
Graham Hancock's been looking into this stuff, too.
This sunken circular plaza.
So they're just...
This is a...
Whoa.
This predates Giza.
Well, what we think is the day of Giza.
The great pyramids.
Conventional.
The conventional dating, right.
So, all right, let's see if I can condense this.
Okay.
This site has, I don't know, eight of these pyramids.
They're actually all throughout the valley and four valleys around it.
The earliest one, in a separate valley close to this, dates back to 4,000 BCE.
It has the remnants of a sunken circular...
The main thing to keep note of is that sunken circular plaza, because it's a
feature that you not only see there in those four valleys, but you also see it
200 kilometers north of Peru.
And what's the conventional explanation for these sunken circular plazas?
Ritual spaces, some people say collecting water, some people say the acoustics
are different.
Here's the interesting thing about it.
This site was discovered in the 1940s.
Wow, look at that artwork.
And nobody did anything about it.
The archaeology...
This is what you'll...
This is what happens in Peru.
In the...
From the 1900s, early 1900s to 1940s, archaeologists and historians were going
up and down the coast finding stuff.
I mean, just finding stuff.
And they would write it down.
They'd put it on the map.
That's why the Ministry of Culture has it on their archaeological database.
They'd pick through it what they could, put stuff in museums, and just move on.
That site, Corral, predated any ceramics.
I mean, this was a pre-ceramic culture, so there were no artifacts to find.
So they just moved on.
It wasn't until Dr. Ruth Shady in, like, the 80s and 90s actually put research
in and figured out, hey, this is older than everything else we found.
Because they just overlooked it.
There were no artifacts.
They were just like, we're going to move on.
When you say no artifacts, like, that seems weird to me.
Because, like, why would you make these immense structures and not have a bowl
to put rice in, right?
A lot of animal skins and the weaving.
So these cultures, what they found is – so that's a little further inland.
They had a sister site on the coast.
And so what they would do – the only agriculture they would grow was cotton.
That cotton, they would trade with the people on the coast so they could make
nets and fish with it.
The fish they would bring back, they would give back to those people who made
the cotton for them.
So it was this weird, you know, interplay.
And the other unique thing about this time period is there was no evidence of
warfare for 1,000 years.
Nobody was fighting each other.
It was very just – everybody – no weapons, no anything like that.
No weapons?
No weapons for 1,000 years.
That seems insane.
Is that just no evidence of weapons?
That's currently no evidence of weapons.
Right.
But maybe someone stole the weapons.
That's possible.
Because, I mean, you're talking about a place that's been looted ad nauseum,
right?
That's true.
I mean, they put in a lot of work, though, excavating – especially that site,
Corral.
So you feel like somewhere they would find some sort of an axe head or –
They found the only artifacts of major note are some of those carvings that we
saw and then bone flutes with carvings on them and the nets, the fishing nets.
And my whole theory is – my whole theory is – this was a pocket.
It's called the Norte Chico culture.
It's a little pocket of these four valleys.
And I went all over them documenting these pyramids.
They don't look like pyramids anymore.
They look like mounds.
They're so old.
But there's another place 200 kilometers north in the Chasma Valley.
And what they have found is underneath the structures that are currently
exposed, they found deeper layers of temples with that sunken plaza in this
whole other location.
And those are dating to the same time.
So I firmly believe that what we – what archaeologists currently say is the
oldest culture, I believe it went the whole coast of Peru.
Wow.
I mean, like, this was a cradle of civilization.
I mean, hands down.
Cradle of civilization 6,000 years ago.
6,000 years ago.
So which is right around the time we think the cradle of civilization happened
in Sumer.
Yeah.
Wow.
And so the hard thing about it is, like, you'll have – you'll have some
carvings in adobe that's been preserved in some of these places.
So there's some sort of iconography.
But there's no writing like the Sumerian.
The whole thing about Peru is, like, there was no writing system that we know
of.
There is a theory, and I believe this.
I believe the kippus, the rope strings with knots.
Yeah.
I believe that was a language.
But the Spanish burnt as – as soon as the Spanish came over, they burned as
many of those things as they could find, and they killed the people who could
read them.
So we won't – we won't ever know.
Oh, God, Spaniards.
How dare you.
But there's, like – there's evidence that they would – they took some of
the Incas to the Spanish court.
And so there's an Inca in the Spanish court in front of the queen or king
reading off of these kippus, reading stories, telling the court.
From knots on strings.
From knots on strings.
Yeah.
And that understanding of that stuff is lost.
It's lost.
Currently, I think, for the last few years, there's been some studies being
done in Harvard trying to use AI to figure out what these – I mean –
How many of these are left over?
Can we see some images of them?
I think 500 to 1,000.
I mean, that's it.
I mean, the Spanish went on a mission to burn all these things.
Because they were trying to convert them to Spanish and get them to speak the
language and become Catholic.
Pretty much.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And so much history is lost because of it.
Yeah.
So it's – but what's interesting is at that oldest place, at Corral, they
found a kippu.
They found one of these knotted strings.
And it wasn't a fishing net.
It was what looked to be a kippu.
And so if you have that tradition going back 6,000 years, I mean, that's –
there's a lot of –
This picture is from 1994.
This is what it looked like then.
It just doesn't look like anything.
See that on the right?
Those pits?
Yeah.
That's looting pits.
And now – wow.
That's what it looks like from above here.
And I was looking at a map.
Oh, so they got to dig it up.
This is the map from above.
Oh.
It's a pretty big area.
Why is ancient history so damn fascinating?
If you go on my spreadsheet, there's a place called Era de – what is it?
I'm looking at my notes here.
Sunken Plaza Era de Pando.
It's a link to my YouTube.
So this – what we're about to see is right across the valley from Corral.
So all throughout that valley are these sites from that Norte Chico culture.
And I'm, like, right there on top of this pyramid.
And just the drone footage is epic, man.
Wow.
I went on a mission looking for these places.
That's it.
The thing about this that is so compelling but also so unsatisfying is that a
lot of these stories, you're never going to get the full answer.
No.
You're never going to get the full history.
It's just the mystery will never be satisfied.
You're always going to be hungry.
You know?
Which is – is that – for a person like yourself that studies these places
and has dedicated so much time to it, is that in any way frustrating or does it
add to the appeal?
It's both.
Well, I got a 6,000-year-old site.
That's a good question.
There's no one there with you at all, it looks like?
No.
Not a – so no one can stop you from taking the spot?
No, I –
Digging?
Whoa, look at that.
So this is you with a drone?
Yeah, this is just me.
I actually spoke to – there was an archaeologist who told me to go to that
place.
And so I went and I just – I was the only one there.
Wow.
So this – my whole thing was I identified most of these places through Google
Earth first.
Like they're not labeled.
These places aren't labeled at all.
That's crazy.
So these aren't documented places?
No, this is.
This one place right here is?
It's not on Google Earth though.
It's not on Google Maps.
You won't see any marker of it.
But I was able to do some digging because of the guy who took me through the
site.
I meet this random guy, Luis.
Luis is amazing.
He's a farmer right here.
I freaked him out.
He thought I was coming to rob him because he gets robbed often apparently.
Oh, boy.
But he walked me through the site and he – this one – okay, if you pause it,
that right there
on the bottom right is another one of those temples with the sunken plaza
except that one has monoliths.
Oh, looks like Stonehenge.
Exactly.
And nobody's done a study on astro – I don't know that stuff.
Right.
But I can almost guarantee that there is some sort of astronomical alignment.
So what happened was archaeologists did come back – did come here in the 90s
I think and it didn't look like Corral.
They weren't going to be able to restore it so they just kept it as a – you
know, to find dating on these things.
And it's from the same culture.
It's just a couple valleys over.
Do you have any footage of the monoliths?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It'll come up if you fast forward through it.
It's going to be back closer to where – yeah.
We walk up to it.
There you go.
Oh.
Interesting.
So some sort of a stone circle of monoliths.
I put it through AI.
They're fairly small monoliths though, right?
I mean some of them are – have been buried and removed.
Oh.
So someone's got them in their fucking house somewhere.
Some of them, yeah.
Ugh.
How much of that is a problem with archaeology?
I know that that was a giant issue with Egyptian artifacts.
A lot of like wealthy people in other countries would just get it imported to
their den and have a big fancy party.
It still happens.
I will have to say that the – and I mean I've seen it with my own eyes, looting.
I've never come across like somebody in the field doing that though.
That would be fucking terrifying, right?
It would be freaky, yeah.
Because they'll kill you.
Dude, you're out in the middle of nowhere.
And if they get caught, they're in deep shit.
So they would want to get rid of you.
And I mean what – I know for a fact the way some of these get out of the
country is some of these huaqueros have people on the inside who write them
certificates and things like that that say it's an authentic piece that has
been owned by the family for this long.
So they can get it out of the country to whoever they're selling it to.
That's how it works.
What's a bigger problem though recently after talking to several archaeologists
and witnessing it myself is agriculture.
Agriculture.
They actually went to – I went to a couple sites that – I found this by
mistake looking on Google Earth.
So I would find a site and I would like roll the satellite date back because
sometimes different seasons give you better imagery.
I'm like holy hell.
What exists now is a quarter of what existed 10 years ago.
And now all you see is like plantations planted.
I mean they have literally paved over the archaeological site to plant.
Dude, and that is – it's become one of the bigger missions of the channel and
eventuality because –
Dude, you don't know – this site could have aligned with that site, could
have aligned with – you have no idea and there's no documentation of it.
There's no documentation because nobody is going out there.
These places are far away, you know.
But here's another peculiar thing.
This last expedition.
So I found one of these sites and I'm on camera and I'm ready to go in like
guns a-blazing like how dare you do this?
How dare you erase this?
And I get there and – I mean it's crumbled stones, crumbled walls and it's
just this woman on her farm.
And so I start talking to her.
This wasn't corporate.
This woman has in fact – did in fact write to the Ministry of Culture to say,
hey, I'm expanding my farm.
They didn't get back to her.
So she did it.
She, you know, paved over or created plots on half the archaeological site.
So it becomes a – I don't know what the right solution is because I feel for
this woman.
She's actually – she's not – this isn't corporate.
She's just surviving.
She's just surviving.
The corporate stuff like pisses me off and I'll go hard on them and I do in
some of my videos.
But she – and she tried to do the right thing by reaching out to the Ministry
of Culture.
But what's she supposed to do?
Wait 10 years to get a response?
Right.
You know, and so – and then I don't know how you empower these people because
from where I sit is at least if you could document it, then you'd have a record
of it.
You know, that's what I'm trying to do when I go out there, create 3D models
and put pins on a map or something like that.
You know, so it's a tricky situation to try to figure out.
What's the most compelling site in Peru for you?
I wanted to show you this.
If you look in my video footage, Purulen Pyramids, P-U-R-U-L-E-N.
This site, I think it is much more deserving of future study.
It's a site that has 16 platform pyramids.
Wow.
And what does this site date to?
So when I do – half my role here is like I'll go out and find these places
and then on the back end when I make these videos, I go hard on the research.
Like I spend too much –
Sorry, which video was that?
Pyramids P-U-R-U-L-E-N.
That's just so you can have a sense of scale.
Thank God for drones, huh?
100%.
Okay.
So that's a platform.
So that is the remains?
That's – so right back – if you look back on the horizon, that's the coast.
So this is right on the ocean, which means this has been inundated for millennia
by tsunamis and –
It looks like it.
It really does, right?
Yeah, it looks like it's completely washed over.
Look at how the sand is formed.
And it's so – I kept that in there.
That's the wind.
The wind is so – I messed up my first drone flying it here.
But check this out.
I keep this in so you could just – there's another one.
Whoa.
Oh, it gets better, man.
That seems like a riverbed.
It completely seems like water is washed right over this whole area.
I bet if you look at it from far above, it's even more evident, right?
Yeah, it was.
Yeah.
Look at that.
Wow.
And they're all the same – they all have the same shape.
And what's the conventional explanation for this place?
There was one study done on this, and it was a brief survey in 1970.
And this guy –
That's it?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's it.
However, the archaeologists who did that survey – there's another one there.
The archaeologists who did this survey has been quoted in the past 30 years
saying he always wanted to come back here and do more research.
He just never did.
It's not an easy place to get to.
But what they dated it at is even in that report, that 1970s survey, he's
saying 1,800 BCE, but likely – look at that.
Wow.
Wow.
Here's something unique.
If you pause it real quick.
All right.
So I looked on Google Earth, and those – toward the top center, you see those
two block-looking things?
All right.
So I was like – I thought they were megalithic.
They're not.
All of these.
All of these pyramids are carved out of the bedrock.
Wow.
Are carved out of the bedrock.
And the only place that there were looting pits are behind those two stones at
the top.
In that little alcove of the mountains, that was the only place.
So I went there, and there's bones there.
So that's where people were buried.
And I'm like, why are they burying people here?
And I stand right in the middle, and it's facing 89-degree, almost perfect east-west,
that little gap.
So, like, that's where they were burying in their elite people.
So where the sun would rise in the summer solstice.
Yeah.
Now, how old is this site supposed to be?
So they said – in that report, he says 1800 – they found one piece of
pottery that's documented.
They found one – and so –
This is from the 1970s study.
Yeah.
And so they're saying 1800 BCE.
That's right around when pottery started.
And – but in that report, he says it's likely older as well.
He thinks it's older.
It needs more study.
But that was it.
That was the only thing that was put out there.
I mean, this is – there's 16 pyramids here.
And if you look in my drone footage, you'll see it looks like there's another
thing here, another thing there.
So it's in the neighborhood of 4,000 years old but possibly older.
Correct.
And I think it is – I would stake everything on it being found to be much
older.
It's pre-ceramic, pre-pottery.
The pre-ceramic thing is nuts.
All right.
So, like, here's the thing.
What are they using for utensils?
What are they using for plates?
Like, what are they using to put their food on?
And then if it is pre-ceramic, what kind of tools do they have?
And how are they carving –
How are they building these pyramids?
This out of the bedrock.
I mean, imagine the amount of effort it would take for a human being banging a
rock against another rock to try to do that and then to make it flat.
Are these things level?
Have they –
They're – I mean, this is the only modern – most of my footage is the only
modern media.
What?
In existence of some of these sites.
That's crazy.
It's just you?
Of that site?
Imagine if you didn't exist.
Imagine if you weren't exposed to that as a 10-year-old.
Yeah.
I mean, that's –
This is just going to sit there for, like, another 1,000 years before somebody
else figures it out?
Yep.
Or it gets paved over.
God.
That's why I'm doing it, man.
God, it's so weird.
Yeah.
But how weird is that?
How weird is it's just you?
Raul, what kind of fucking – what kind of weight on your shoulders is there
that this one fascinating site, you're the only guy that's got video of this?
Modern video?
That's crazy.
Yeah.
Thanks for having me on, Joe.
You're getting kind of choked up about it.
Yeah, man.
I mean, it's – it's a lot of work, you know?
And it's just – it's something in me that I've –
Well, it's obviously very compelling to everyone that really pays attention to
it.
Is this the –
That's when you look on the satellite.
Oh.
And, again, this is the thing.
This is not like they put some rocks in place.
They carve these things out of the bedrock and they're fucking huge.
That's what's so crazy about it.
I just – I had to – I mean, getting there was –
Like, what are we looking at, man?
Like, that's the thing.
Like, what are we looking at?
And why in Peru?
And what happened to this area where they had so much – so much sophisticated,
complex construction that was absolutely abandoned and there's almost nothing
left?
So, they – so, they – over the course of history, what they've found is
that especially – because people like to build on the coast.
And there's just – up and down the coast of Peru, there's so much.
Sure.
But then a major, massive El Nino would happen.
And that just floods everything.
And so, people are like, well, we got to go up into the mountains.
So, they start going further into the valleys.
Because Peru's so unique.
You have the coast and then the Andes just start.
You know, they just start going up until you get to, you know, the – before
you start getting into the Amazon, you got to cross the whole Andes.
And so, for several hundred years, they would live further up the valley.
And then they would come back and repopulate on the coast and build on top of
the sites that used to be there.
And then it would happen again.
And they would go back.
And so, there's this whole cycle of – and there's some places where you will
find that direct – it's very hard to find megalithic stuff, though, like the
stuff you're finding in Cusco, for example, on the coast.
You don't really find that – you don't really find that type of architecture
on the coast.
You didn't have that building material.
You didn't have stones like that.
And so, it's my belief that some of these places existed further back than we
think.
Like this place here on the coast, the erosion and the wind and the water that
must have affected it, I can only – I have footage from – what we just saw
was drone footage from this year.
I didn't get much drone footage the year before.
I could already see how much has been covered in one year, in one year from
having gone there again.
And it's just – imagine over millions of years – or thousands of years.
It's crazy.
If you had to just take a wild guess with no one holding you to this at all,
how old do you think we're talking about here?
I think there's – I go back pre-cataclysm, the young and dryest.
There's evidence on like Waka Prieta that there was this mound that was carved
out of the bedrock that Tom De La Haye and his team excavated.
And that academically accepted dates back to 12,500 BCE.
And so, there were people living on the coast at that time.
So, this mound, what does that look like?
There's a – it looks just like a – this is an interesting site.
That's it.
What am I looking at here?
That mound.
So, that's not a natural mound?
No, it started off as natural.
And so, what they found was they would use their refuse.
And so, they would put trash on top of the mound and then cap it with like adobe
mud so it would become strong.
It would become a platform.
And then they would build on top of it.
So, it's a trash mound?
Part of it.
How weird.
That wasn't an uncommon thing.
And that's more than 15,000 years old.
And what is that?
They have writing from there?
No.
What's that, cloth?
That's –
It's hard to see with that image.
Cloth, like fishing nets.
Oh, I see.
It's one of the oldest pieces of cotton.
So, you ask how they were carrying things and all that with the cotton.
Right.
But the cotton was coming from further inland.
It wasn't coming from them.
So, even back then they were –
So, here's the kick.
And this is part of like the paper I'm thinking I'm writing.
There's evidence at that place, Huaca Prieta, of a sunken circular plaza.
And that predates all the ones we saw by even – by 2,000 more years.
I think this is where that tradition started.
Wow.
I think that's where it started far earlier than anybody accepts or knows.
Now, here's the weird one.
Like, how did those people get there?
Dude, you know, I've thought about this.
I mean, look, if you –
Right?
If you're building these structures 6,000 years ago, 11,000 years ago, 15,000
years ago, when did you get there?
When did you get there?
And there's – yeah, there's the plaza.
So, I mean, I don't think it takes much.
I think if you're living on the coast or, I don't know, by any sort of water
and you see a piece of wood floating on it, you're like, oh, all right.
Well, then 1,000 years go by and you have, at that point, put some pieces of
wood together to make a flotation device, you're able to navigate.
Like, I just – I don't see it not happening.
Eventually.
Right.
Especially with crazy people.
Right.
Someone's got the courage to just sail out there.
And I hope you have enough water on you.
Or you're fishing and –
You get stuck.
You get stuck and there's a storm and it's like, whoop.
Right.
And you could never make it back.
Right.
But I think that's happened in multiple places.
I don't think that civilization is born and created without, A, that sense of
exploration but also that natural ingenuity.
I mean, storms happen and you see a log floating in the ocean.
Mm-hmm.
Well, I can use that to go get – catch more fish.
Yeah.
All of a sudden, you're seafaring.
Boy.
So –
It just – when you see stuff like this that's that old, that's 15,000 years
old, you go, okay, well, this is all that's left from 15,000 years ago.
What's left from 30,000 years ago?
Because it's like double that, right?
Right now, you look at 15, there's almost nothing.
It's like, God, it's so little and – but you get it.
But if you went another 15 before that, are we talking – what is that?
And that's why I'm like – with the stuff Biondi is doing with the SAR tech, I'm
just hoping that that can be affordable and applied in multiple areas to find
things that are buried underground.
One thing that I've always been curious about, why there hasn't been more
research until I looked into it, all these places were on the coast of Peru.
Well, sea levels were lower at one point.
And so what's right off the coast of Peru?
Right.
You know?
And there haven't been many, if any, studies on that.
I'm like, why?
Apparently, the Humboldt Current makes it very difficult to – this is what I
read because I was like, why hasn't anybody studied this?
Apparently, the Humboldt Current makes it very difficult to do research out
there where it becomes very expensive for the equipment you need and things
like that.
But I guarantee that you'll be – you'll find some stuff off the coast.
Yeah, it just makes sense.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Especially if you find that.
I mean, especially we know that sea levels were far lower, especially if that
really is 15,000 years ago.
We definitely know that sea levels were lower then.
Yeah.
It wasn't like this – it's crazy too, man.
Because, like, Tom Dilley got – I mean, he got so much shit from the academic
community for his research down in Monte Verde and this site.
Which is interesting how consistent it is.
It's still going on today in the same way.
And –
And they're always wrong.
Right?
You would think you might want to have an open – just leave some room and –
The young archaeologists are.
I think there's a lot of young archaeologists that have grown up with the
internet and they're really paying attention to this stuff and they're
realizing – and also, when you're young and you grow up with the internet,
you realize, like, gatekeepers of information are a real problem.
And they always have been.
And they're wrong about so many things.
I mean, they're wrong about virtually everything.
The official narrative of almost everything has holes in it.
Dude, I'm like – something you said earlier too.
Like, this age of study and exploration and radiocarbon – it's not that old.
Right.
It's – we've only been doing this type of research for 100 years with some of
the new advancements.
Like, you don't think something else is going to come along that might knock
that out?
Right.
You don't want to leave room for that?
Right.
Like, it's kind of dickish.
It's very dickish.
But, you know, no need to focus on the dicks.
But that's why things like Filippo Biondi's work is so devastating to the
narrative because this new technology and if it shows that it's accurate –
and it is accurate on things that we know exist.
That's where it gets really crazy, especially when they looked 1.2 kilometers
through a mountain to find the particle collider underneath and got the exact
dimensions and a map of this particle collider.
It's wild.
Right?
So they know that it's accurate.
And then – so what are those pillars?
What are these 20-meter in diameter?
What are these things?
And why would you not want to divest all the money you can possibly do to
figure that out?
I think it will happen.
And I think one of the reasons why it's going to happen is because of the
internet, is because just the pressure and the amount of interest.
And also, think about Egypt, right?
Egypt, a large portion of their economy is wrapped around the tourism.
Yeah.
Because the tourism in Egypt is phenomenal because it's one of the most
incredible sites in the world.
Wouldn't you want it to be even more incredible?
Like what's more incredible than some unknown mystery of spectacular proportion?
Something that goes a kilometer deep under the pyramids and they don't know
what it is?
Like this is nuts.
Also, those shafts that go down that are filled with debris now that they can
clear out and it leads to what at least this data shows, tunnels and caverns
and all this shit that's underneath there.
Like what is that?
That's, I mean, and I think Ben has done phenomenal work putting all that
together.
Oh, he's incredible.
I love that guy.
Like the history and the story and the accounts of being in these labyrinths.
And he's another guy that got into this because of the internet, you know?
I mean, he had a real career in tech.
And he was like, okay, I'm going to throw this out to be a YouTuber.
I was, I forget who I was speaking to, but I mean, I, my goal is to document as
much as possible before it's not there to document.
And, and I, I, I mean, it's crazy to be on here and to my, my channel is, I
still feel like it's in its infancy.
Well, I only found out about it a while.
I mean, I want to say four months ago, five months ago, something like that.
You know, I started seeing some of your stuff online, I think on X.
And I started looking at it on YouTube and I was like, yo, this guy's going
deep.
How did you fund all this stuff?
I mean, how do you have the money to go and do these things?
I went broke the first expedition.
This was a total field of dreams.
If you build it, I'll see what happens.
And, and fortunately, I mean, uh, people saw the work I had been doing up until
that point.
And there, there were some GoFundMe donations, which was amazing.
The, the fact that, I mean, just thank anybody out there.
Just thank you.
Like the, the people who believe in what I'm doing, like, that's what fills me
up the most
too.
Like, uh, the encouragement and the support from, from, from people I don't
know, you know?
And, and, and, and the content you provide though is so fascinating.
And it's so, it's so interesting to people like myself and other people that
are really
interested in it.
It's just a matter of getting you exposure.
So the content is so amazing.
It's just a matter of people have to find out about it.
And then, I mean, YouTube's a great, what the, the algorithm on YouTube is so
good because
it'll recommend, I'll watch one of your videos and it'll recommend something
else interesting,
you know?
And then it just keeps going on and on and on.
Well, and, uh, so I came back from that first expedition.
I was there, the first expedition was 23 days.
I had two terabytes of footage and it's funny, that footage lasted me a year
and a half until
this expedition now.
And I was out on this last expedition for 42 days all over the country.
And I mean, the video you were talking about when we first started talking,
that, that is
too, the only, there's no drone footage of that site ever.
There is one Facebook post with pictures and that's it.
And I was like, I have to document this, you know?
Uh, and so much from the last expedition is, is like that.
It's the only, the only media that you'll see of it.
And the fact that this, these pyramids carved into the bedrock, that you're the
only one that
has media that is just absolutely insane.
What are we looking at here?
I'm just digging around the area.
Oh yeah.
This is a mummy, lady cow they found in 2006.
Yeah.
They call her that she might've been the first female ruler of the area, the
Cleopatra of
South America.
These are pictures of her tattoos.
Oh, what?
So actually what's interesting is, um, it is, it is being, there's a lot of
evidence to
say that some of these early, early cultures were matriarchal because they're,
they're finding
a lot of the tombs of, um, these Queens right there on, right there on the
coast.
The sorcerer.
Yes.
That, that, that, this one pyramid in this area called El Brujo where Juaca Prieta
is.
Yep.
They found this dope totem.
Whoa.
Um, and so what's interesting.
And so I believe this was, um, the, the, I think Moche, um, El Brujo, there are.
These paintings are on the wall.
Wow.
I, I have, I have a video on YouTube of those.
That's cool too because you see paint.
So you realize that these things were very colorful.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Naked prisoners and that this is a recreation of what it would have looked like
then.
Those are prisoners?
Yeah.
So the actual thing I thought was queer too.
Why are they painting their prisoners?
That's weird.
Uh.
I mean, everything was painted though.
This was where people.
I mean, why are they making depictions of their prisoners?
You know what I mean?
Not that they painted it different colors, which is kind of cool, but it's
interesting.
Like how old is this supposed to be?
Uh, anywhere from three thousand, this was a very interesting part.
Three thousand BC is what they say it goes back to, but they say it wasn't
developed until
uh, modern day, like 200 to 600 AD, which is it's a 3,600 years of nothing.
So it was, I believe it was the Moche culture.
1990 this one was found and a Peruvian banker is the guy.
It says it's philanthropically minded.
I can't say it.
Right.
And the, the, the, the Huacheros are the ones who told him about it.
And so that's, a lot of these places have been found because of, um,
Huacheros being reported.
All of a sudden there's an influx in a little village of silver or something
like that.
And then somebody tells the authorities, they figure out where they're going to
dig.
I mean, there's a, there's a good book on it.
It's called the Lord of Sipan, um, where our archeologists literally had to
like stand guard.
The townspeople weren't happy that when the archeologists got involved and the
townspeople
were coming to get the gold and coming to get the silver.
And so there's a whole book about it.
I don't know why nobody's made a movie on it.
There's a, there's a, there's a, there's a sense though, right?
Cause it's life changing.
If they can find hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold and silver in
the ground,
fuck these archeologists.
Well, and, uh, some of the earliest, a lot of the stuff you'll see in the
museums, like
the Larco Herrera museum and, um, uh, a lot of this stuff, a lot of the pottery
is preserved
because you had these big plantation owners, these big, you know, technocrats
and their workers
in the field would constantly be finding this, this artwork and these, these,
these wakas.
And, um, and so they were like, you know what, I'll give you $2 every time you
bring me, bring
me one.
And now we have the Larco Herrera museum, you know, full of this stuff.
So, and there's, I was talking to Dr. Ed Barnhart about this.
There's also, there's also so much in Peru that the, the, the people finding
these things,
they aren't, maybe nowadays they're making a lot on stuff, but for the past
couple of
decades, there's just, there was just so much.
You're getting $3 for, if you're a Peruvian worker in the field, moving this
thing up the
ladder, you're getting $3 for a little piece of pottery.
How long have you been doing this for?
I mean, what I've been with the channel, two years.
That's it.
Two years.
Yeah.
And what were you doing before that?
A video editor.
And so you just said, you know what, I'm going to just take a leap of faith.
My contract, my, I had a contract position and it ended.
I was posting these things I was finding on Google earth and I was saying like,
I think
this is something, this is why I came up with this whole methodology and people
were like,
you're full of shit.
And I was like, you know what?
Let's see.
And I went and 100% accuracy, every single place I saw on Google earth that did
not have
a label was an archeological site.
Every single one I went to.
And that first expedition, I went to 90 in 23 days.
Yeah.
That was the first expedition.
I was there for 42 days this time.
Wow.
So like, I've got five terabytes worth of video footage of things nobody's seen.
That's crazy.
But just, I mean, imagine again, what if you didn't do this?
That's what's nuts.
That's what's nuts.
Like, we would be completely ignorant about this stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It just makes you wonder like, what was like, like those stone pyramids carved
at the bedrock,
the only UF footage of it.
What was that culture?
What were they doing?
And all I have to go off of is what this, what made me happy is like, and I
have it on
the video, I'm talking to the camera, I'm like, I think this, I think that, I
think
this is carved.
And that survey verified every little thing that I, which was like pretty cool
because
I'm not, you know, academically trained to, you know, analyze these things, but
I have
the, I have the experience.
And so it was kind of neat that every bullet point was verified by that survey.
The feeling I got going to that place, in that place in particular, I don't
think they're
going to find pottery there.
I don't think they're going to, I think it was pre-ceramic, but I also think
there weren't
houses, there weren't, there might be, you know, if you go digging or do some LIDAR.
I think it was a place of pilgrimage.
That's just my person, I have nothing to back that up.
That's what I felt though, kind of.
Pilgrimage.
You kind of intuit, like when I was walking there, I don't know, man, Peru is
weird.
The energy in Peru is different.
In what way?
I want to say spiritual, because I don't have a different word for it.
It's just, you're just in tune with something.
I mean, maybe it's just the nature, maybe, but I mean, I feel, I feel different
down there.
And especially going in these far out places.
And when you get to some of these sites, like you, you, you feel a little
different.
And, and so just the kind of the intuitive impression I got was, I wonder if
people were
coming here as some sort of pilgrimage because they, I mean, there aren't
houses there.
There's no evidence of people living there.
So I think.
But is that because of time?
That's very, it's very possible.
That's the problem when you're seeing something that's, the amount of work that
would take
to carve something out of bedrock, like there was pyramid.
And how many of those pyramids did you find?
There were like 16 of them.
16.
Yeah.
Okay.
They're huge.
Huge.
They're carved out of the ground, out of rock with what?
Here's the interesting thing.
In that survey, I didn't know this.
And I tried to pinpoint the location.
That main pyramid I was on, there's a black and white photo from 1970 where
they found a
carved out room in that pyramid, in that main pyramid.
There's a, and it looks like a room.
It's been human carved out.
So there's chambers in some of these things.
Why aren't we studying it?
Right.
Why haven't we gone back in?
Also, how?
Like, what are you using to cut?
Right.
Like, what kind of tools do you have?
6,000 years?
Like, what tools were available?
And it's so close to the ocean, you might not ever know because a tsunami comes
in, it's
taking it right back out.
Right.
Right.
And if it's metal, it's gone anyway.
It's gone.
Same with, same with, I think also, like, I think that little alcove where all
the burials
were, I think that got preserved because it was behind this mountain.
Hmm.
I think if there was any civilization there prior that might have been living
there, all
the bones that were there, they're gone.
Right.
They got taken back out.
Of course.
Yeah.
And probably all the structures, any houses, if they had wooden houses or-
On top of the land.
Yeah.
Gone.
Nothing left.
And so all you're left is with this strong, who knows if those things were
bigger too, you
know?
Right.
Right.
Who knows what was on top of those things, right?
Exactly.
That's nuts, man.
The thing that gave it away on that site in particular is when you look aerially,
every
single one of those pyramid structures is facing northeast.
Every single one.
And that's for the sunrise on the solstice.
Right.
And I was like, this is man-made.
This is man-made.
And there's still people on the comments who are like, that's, oh, that's just
a mountain.
And I'm like, dude, what more do you want?
Like, the leading-
They think that those things were just-
Oh, yeah.
They don't think those things are man-made?
Yeah.
They're the same shape.
Yeah, I know.
The same shape, the same size.
They're all pointing in the same direction.
Shut the fuck up.
I've learned not to fight.
It just, you know, you're going to believe what you want anyway.
You know what I mean?
It's the history, I mean, Graham Hancock has the greatest phrase, that we are a
species
with amnesia.
And I think it's true.
And I think it all points back to not just the Younger Dryas impact, but
probably several
other impacts.
You know, my friend John Reeves, he lives in Alaska, and he runs the Boneyard.
Yeah, yeah.
John just sent me some photos of a new site that they have that's under all
these other
sites, like deep under all these other sites, where they're finding not just
bone, but
charred bone, like an entire area of like burnt tusks, burnt bones, covered.
And he thinks there was another impact.
An impact.
And, you know, but just, I mean, he's just making a rough estimation.
Because some of the sites that he found, it's somewhere around 10,000 years ago,
due to
like, you know, doing the examination of the cores and he thinks it's 20,000
years ago.
So he thinks this is probably a normal thing that has happened all throughout
the history
of the earth, is the earth gets pelted, you know, every 10,000, every 20,000,
whatever.
You know, we just get hit.
And that speaks to the myths and the legends and the dryas and the yugas.
And, I mean, every civilization has its version of, you know, this is the fifth
epoch or the
fourth epoch.
You know, this is, the first one was fire.
The last one was, you know, water.
There's always several cataclysms.
The yuga stuff is nuts, too, because it just seems like it's so accurate.
And we're in Kali Yuga right now, which is the age of deception.
And, like, what's more confusing?
That's what it's called, right?
Isn't it called the age of deception?
Find out what, so what's more, like, if you thought that it was all falling
apart before
it gets rebuilt, let's like, that's now.
Like, this place is fucking crazy.
It's wild.
Every day the news is nuts.
I've gone on a social media hiatus over the last few days, and I feel so good.
And I decided two days ago I'm not going back.
I'm like, I'm not going back.
I'll go back to post things.
I'm never reading it anymore.
I'll find my news.
You know, people send me enough stuff as it is.
My friends send me things.
I don't have to click on them, but I know what's going on.
Like, what craziness is happening.
You just feel better when you don't do it.
I've been sucked into the, the Nazca mummies thing sucked me into the back and
forth on
X, and I, and it's so toxic, man.
So toxic.
So toxic.
And it's like, at the end of the day, people are going, people, look, you can
have all the
evidence saying this one thing, and everybody agrees you're going to have this
group that
is like, well, no, for this reason.
And then, and it's the same thing on the other side, too.
And so it's just this, this, um, social media is this weird, what I'm, what I'm
saying is
it's just this weird loop of confirmation bias and, and bitchiness and anger
and arguments
and infighting and attacks.
And I just think that it's altering the collective psychological foundation of
our society.
I agree with you.
And that's, what's weird.
And that's what makes sense when you see like crazy protests and crazy people
online.
It's like, everyone's getting, there's something that's happening to them.
Well, what's this one thing that exists with everybody?
It's social media use.
Yep.
And, and I, and I think, I don't know, it's, it's, it's hard.
I tried to stay away and then I found myself like last week after I made like
these videos,
just, just for the social media sphere, as an example, like I was getting
pulled into
it.
I felt myself as somebody who has not engaged that much.
I was like, something has shifted, you know?
And like, I was ready to get defensive and, and, and, and take things
personally.
And I'm like, this is an attack back.
And I was like, this is just continuing the cycle and I don't want that.
I don't want that in my life.
I don't need any of that.
So I just stopped, you know?
And, and, but the level of defensiveness, the level of attacks, the level of,
and it's
not even at some points, it's not even just taking things personally.
The attacks are personal sometimes.
It's like, what are you supposed to do other than not engage?
Yeah.
You can't engage.
I say post and ghost.
That's my strategy.
I like it.
That's my strategy.
And then even then I'm telling people to stay off of it.
So they're not even going to read my stuff.
Like they're listening to me, but that's okay.
It's okay.
It's like, you find out enough.
You find out about the important things and find out about shows that you enjoy.
And then you subscribe.
And then when new episodes come out, you're like, Ooh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And so that's what I've been doing.
And it's, it's a much healthier way.
Like, um, the one thing that doesn't, but jelly roll was telling me this, like,
you know,
he got off also, he, he had no phone for like 18 months, no phone at all.
Wow.
It was crazy.
Yeah.
Like I'd contact him through his guy that was running his social media.
Sounds like a healthy choice.
Tell jelly I love him.
Tell myself what's up.
And then, um, recently he got a phone like over the last few months and only
uses YouTube.
He's like my YouTube, he goes, I learn things.
I get interested in things.
And that's how I feel too.
Like I really enjoy YouTube.
I, I, there's so much interest, interesting content on YouTube about everything.
I mean, it's just like.
We're living in, I mean, this is a, an incredible age where, I mean, I feel
fortunate for what,
what I'm doing that there, there's an audience for it, you know?
And, and, and there's a platform that can allow that to have, have some reach
because some
stuff deserves to reach.
Well, what you're doing is very important.
It's very important.
Just the fact that you are the first guy to get media of that, those structures.
That's crazy, man.
I mean, it's really kind of crazy.
You're a video editor.
Two years ago, you decided to do this.
You're the first guy who's documenting these things.
And then we're showing millions of people right now, kind of nuts.
Like how few people know that there was some kind of a complex society that
understood the
equinoxes, pointing their structure toward it and not just building them with
mud and bricks,
but carving it out of the bedrock in a similar shape over and over and over
again.
And that's just what you found.
Like imagine how much hasn't been found.
Dude, you just look at the aerial stuff and I mean, Joe, I can't, this just,
that's just
the tip of the iceberg, man.
Right.
Like of the content that, I mean, I'm going to places in the middle of the
desert and seeing
an adobe wall peek out at this one little section and then I put the drone in
the air and you
can see the outline of this whole structure, just a little bump in the sand.
And no one even knows it's there.
No one even knows it's there.
What happened to all those people?
That's what's nuts.
Dude, that's the, that's the, like, when I say cradle of civilization, I mean,
this was,
I don't know, whatever is bigger than a cradle.
Well, that's what makes sense, right?
Because if you think about the ice age and if all this stuff is pre-ice age or
during the
ice age, that area is not covered in ice.
And it's one of the few areas around the equator that's not fucked up.
And it's one of the few areas where people can thrive.
So it really makes sense that that would be the area where civilization would
not just thrive,
but reach very high levels of sophistication where they're able to carve into
the bedrock
of these massive pyramid structures.
There's interesting evidence that, um, I forgot, I was watching, it was on,
like, Discovery
or Nagio or something, but there's evidence in, in, like, the Okukahe Desert.
I mean, they're finding another dark trafficking, uh, illegal trafficking web
is, like, the,
the sale of fossils, because they're finding whales in the Okukahe Desert.
And that brings me to, I was waiting to find a good point for this.
They found that they were using whale vertebrae as stools.
So they found this giant.
Dude, I want those for my bar.
Dude, that's awesome.
I did not know that.
In 2023, they found what could be dubbed the most heaviest, or the heaviest
animal ever.
I've been in touch with that guy's nephew.
Colossal blue whale found outside of Peru.
Each vertebrae weighs 220 pounds.
Yeah, the whole thing, the ones they found, 200 tons.
And so, like, as you were just saying, if they're not buried under tons of ice,
then these people
could, in theory, have found, you know, lots of these giant.
Holy shit.
In the desert, yeah.
Something else I'm stumbling across and didn't get into it.
Blue whale poop has apparently got some, something interesting to it.
What's the deal with blue whale poop?
That's what I didn't really get into.
Jamie, how do you go on these deep dives in the middle of a podcast?
Jamie, you're a fucking wizard, dude.
You just start seeing stuff.
Like the, having a poop.
Look at that.
Neon green.
I'm just imagining these giant 200 ton poops.
And then what you could, I don't know, it's red.
Oh, God.
What are these people doing with poop?
They also think that they could have been eating in a different way.
They're just sweeping up shrimp and shit from the bottom of the ocean.
Right.
I'm just, like, picturing what this looked like, you know, in the year zero,
where there's
a bunch of giant whale bones all over the coast.
And who knows what other octopus or whatever the fuck else.
What happens to that poop when it fossilizes, you know?
But, no, they're finding that, I mean, there is a dark web of trafficking for
looking for
stuff in the Okukahe Desert, where all these prehistoric animal bones are.
They found dinosaurs and stuff there, too.
And, again, is it just wealthy people that want it for their homes?
Is that what it is?
The stuff I've seen, it's, I mean, really, that guy and a few other people just
kind of
going out there illegally looking for stuff.
But it has to be valuable for them to be willing to do this, right?
So, who's buying it?
Wealthy oligarchs.
I don't know.
Where are these fucking people?
I never met one of them that has some stuff like that.
I want to go over to someone's house.
Like, hey, you want to see some shit?
You got a whole museum right there.
That's probably how you wind up on a list.
But, I mean, there's still so much out there.
And, I mean, if I, just like some of the structures I was talking about, like,
you
literally see a whole adobe wall.
You see a whole temple complex.
You see the remnants of a circular plaza.
I mean, there's another, if you go to the undocumented temple on the
spreadsheet, this is undocumented.
No Ministry of Culture sign.
It's not on the Ministry of Culture's database of archaeological sites.
Where did she find it?
Using Google Earth.
Wow.
And so, here's the thing.
All right.
So, circling back, we had that Norte Chico culture with the sunken plazas way
down here.
We have this.
Awesome plaza.
Go ahead.
So, that, well, that's what I saw on Google Earth.
No, go ahead.
Continue what you just said.
So, you have the Corral Supe culture down here.
And then you have the, they found that sunken plaza underneath archaeological
sites in Chasma way up here.
So, you have these two different, and they're saying they were separate
cultures.
I think they were the same.
How far apart are they?
200 kilometers or miles.
I forget.
So, what I was like, I was like, well, is there a connection between these two?
So, I looked in the valleys in between, and I found this with a sunken, a
temple, with a sunken circular plaza.
So, you just have them.
You just found it.
Found it on Google Earth.
Yeah.
And then, and then I went, and I needed help from one of the guys in the field
to, and that, this, a lot of the people in these pueblos, like, they'll know.
Every now and then, you'll get lucky, and someone knows the history.
Every now and then.
More often than not, it's, yeah, there's some ruins right over there.
And that's it.
That's the extent.
That's the extent of their knowledge.
And so, that was one of these occasions where the guy was like, if you just go
this way and that way.
Because I was looking for it.
I had to pin on my map, but I was getting lost.
So, I go and I find this place, and lo and behold, it's a sunken circular plaza,
temple structure.
I go up on top.
There's pottery there.
You can see where the Huaccaros have dug things out.
There's walls.
And it's just unexcavated.
Nobody surveyed it.
There's no documentation of it.
It's just there.
Wow.
Can I see it?
So, that's what I saw.
This is what you saw on Google Earth.
Yeah.
Okay.
And so, you're just looking in between these two areas.
Oh, and it's also facing north-northeast, too.
That also told me that it was probably something.
Okay.
And then you see this?
This you find on Google Earth?
Yeah, that's right next to it.
And then you went.
And then I went.
What, do you rent in a car?
How the fuck are you doing this?
Yeah.
What happens if you bring these cars back?
They're like, where'd you go?
Yeah.
I have some pictures of driving out in the desert, man.
Like.
Okay.
So, this guy's helping you?
Yeah.
Is this a guy, a local?
Yeah.
He was just working in the field there.
Okay.
So, these are the fields.
And he tells you where this stuff is?
Yeah.
So, all the locals know where this stuff is.
And then, pretty soon, I start walking up to it.
And this is completely undocumented.
And it's.
You can see the plaza there.
Mm-hmm.
It's all rubble.
So, something happened.
Some earthquake or.
So, I'm walking up to the top of it.
And then.
So, right now, it just looks like rubble.
It doesn't even look like it was a building.
Right.
From the ground, at least.
Exactly.
And so many places, I'm, like, standing right in the middle of the.
Right in the middle of a site.
I don't even know until I put the drone in the air.
Oh.
I think it's coming up here.
You'll see a.
Let's see.
Should come up here shortly.
There you go.
Okay.
So.
Clearly.
Underneath all of that is rooms.
Right.
So, you see the bricks.
A piece of pottery.
Some of the walk arrows took out.
Wow.
But that was.
That was evidence to me that.
So, underneath this whole thing.
Are walls and chambers.
Wow.
And rooms.
And you just found this on Google Earth.
And it's the same style.
As.
That corral supe culture.
The early one from, you know.
3,000 to 4,000 years ago.
It's just.
It's just so hard to believe that this is unexplored.
And not just that.
Undocumented.
Yep.
And that you just find it on Google.
Thank God for.
Shout out to Google Earth.
Yeah.
You know.
Google Earth deserves some props.
I mean, seriously.
Yeah.
Crazy.
I mean.
Who would have ever thought.
People asked if I used like advanced satellite stuff.
And I've only used Google Earth so far.
Look at this.
Clearly.
Some sort of a civilization was there.
That just got obliterated.
So, this was weird.
I don't know.
Like.
It was just a cactus in the middle of it all.
It was very strange.
I don't know.
Cactuses are tough.
I still don't know what to make of that.
They can grow anywhere.
That's what's weird about it.
But it is weird.
There's only one.
Yeah.
In the middle of it.
Yeah.
But so, there's pottery there.
And.
I was wondering if it was the sand.
There was one more cactus.
Like.
Directly aligned with it.
Other San Pedro cactus down there?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So.
These people were probably doing something.
Something with the old psychedelic cactus.
I've got a place to show you.
Because San Pedro cactus is where you get mescaline, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
It makes sense that if they have these temples.
And they have.
If there's a pilgrimage.
There's probably some sort of a psychedelic ritual involved.
Look at this, man.
What does it feel like to just find something that no one even knew existed
like this?
It's got to be a trip.
I'm like, thank God I was right.
They spent 14 hours getting to this place.
Like.
Right.
Thank God there was something.
But there have been times, too, where I'll get there.
And it's the satellite.
Google Earth hasn't updated itself.
And there's a plantation planted over some of it.
You know.
And it's like.
Do you ask the people?
Like, what used to be here?
If there's people around.
I mean, sometimes.
Like I said, it's.
You can tell.
You can kind of tell when it's corporate.
The infrastructure in the area is different.
But that's the other thing.
There's nobody monitoring this.
And I was like, what's the solution?
Do you pay somebody to call the Ministry of Culture when somebody's coming in
with bulldozers leveling things?
What would they even do?
Probably the people with the bulldozers just pay them off.
Either pay them off or.
Dude.
At that corral site.
Ruth Shady.
The archae.
She was shot by land traffickers.
The archaeologist.
Responsible for.
Land traffickers were trying to take over the site.
And she was shot.
She was killed?
She wasn't killed.
She was shot.
And.
I mean, she's.
As recent as a few years ago is like.
We're still not getting protections from them.
They sent us one security guard to patrol the perimeter.
These land traffickers, man, like.
And it's for agriculture.
It's for agriculture.
It's not for looting.
Looting is a happy byproduct for them.
It's for the agriculture.
Squatters issued death threats to archaeologists.
Discovered oldest city in America's.
The oldest city in the Americas.
And you're getting one rent-a-cop.
Wow.
They called the site's lawyers and said that if he continued to protect me,
they would kill him along with me and bury us five meters below the ground.
And she's 73.
They killed our dog as a warning.
Oh, God.
They actually, when, I think it was, there was, because when they excavate,
they do it in seasons and stuff.
And there was one season where, like, land traffickers had started building on
part of the site and in the off season from digging.
So they had to deal with all of that.
I mean, it's crazy.
It's like the Wild West, man.
Wow.
Any other sites to show us that are particularly compelling?
I mean, dude, there's...
I know.
We could go on forever, but...
If you look at Chavin, C-H-A, it's on the, just on the media hard drive.
So we're talking about underground structures and hallucinogens and stuff like
that.
This place, Chavin.
Now, this is a known archaeological site.
And how old is this place?
I think 2,000, right around zero.
Look how far down it goes.
How deep does it go?
This is nuts.
Right?
And this is just one part of it.
Whoa.
And this is 2,000 years old, at least.
At least.
Wow.
So they won't let you film in the other section.
It kind of looks like this.
Why won't they let you film there?
Because there's something called the Lanzon Monolith.
And if you look that up, Jamie, L-A-N-Z-O-N Monolith.
So, that's it.
So they won't let you film in there because too many people go in there and
take pictures.
And the flash, supposedly, so they just, yeah.
The flash.
Dude, but when I went in there, the security guard was right behind me the
whole time.
He knew I was going to try to take a picture.
Yeah, but you can take a picture with no flash now, especially with, like, the
new iPhones and Samsung phones.
You can take some really high-resolution photos.
The guard said not enough people know how to turn it off on their phone.
Oh, boy.
So, but when you walk in.
The flash is fucking it up?
That seems crazy.
Yeah.
That seems like voodoo.
Doesn't it?
Doesn't it?
Does that mean?
It could do it to paint and stuff.
Come on.
There's no paint on that fucking thing.
The rock is crazy.
How's it?
And it's behind a piece of plexiglass, too.
That sounds like they're just control freaks.
Like, fuck off, dude.
Yeah, they make a reason for sure just to tell people.
So, the whole thing about this place, you saw how deep we went underground.
Right.
It's in a comparable place with these hallways, and Joe, I, like, completely
stone-cold sober.
That's what it looks like?
As soon as I walked in underground, something hits you.
So, it's, the air is different.
Dude, I don't know how to describe it.
And how'd you feel?
Lighter and a little messed up in the head, man.
Really?
Yeah.
Do you think it was a lack of oxygen?
It's possible.
Because it seems like you're deep, deep, deep underground, probably limited
oxygen, because
you get these caverns, and you just got a hole to the top.
I mean, honestly, I wonder if it's built on some sort of, I don't know, like
the, like
the sacred energy site.
Great, sacred energy, or Delphi, with the gases, or something like that.
I don't know.
Are you getting gassed in there?
All I know is that when you go in, which they-
Show me that totem again, that monolith.
What they found is, they found evidence of rituals happening there, like plates
with hallucinogenic
plants or substances.
So, people were going down there to do these rituals and do this space.
I mean, if you're going to go on a trip, that's the place to do it.
Right.
Like, that's, it's just, you're in there in a closed space.
The acoustics are so weird.
It's, it's trippy, man.
What is that image on that thing?
Jaguar, it said.
It's a jaguar?
There's a, there's a whole bunch of imagery here.
That's like the fanged.
So, for a while, they thought, they thought this culture, the Chavin culture,
was responsible
for the, the onset of religion in Peru.
The Chavin, they called it the mother culture for decades.
And you see this fanged deity, Dr. Barnhart talks about it a lot, this jaguar-looking
deity.
They thought it came from there.
But there's actually places that I went to where you see it on the coast for
older.
So, it actually kind of flips that whole, it's not the mother culture.
But their influence and their reach was extreme throughout the, throughout the
Andean world.
So, they were responsible for, that's when like religion took, and iconography
got a major
influx right after Chavin culture.
They had it before, but not like this.
So, that's what's, that's what's on that statue.
Wow.
Yeah.
And it's, it's just so ridiculous.
They won't let you take a picture because of the flash.
That's so good.
Somebody should talk to them and go, hey man, shut the fuck up.
That flash doesn't do anything.
Devotees would be led into the maze of pitch black tunnels, eventually coming
face to face
with the sculpture.
The worshiper, worshiper's disorientation, in addition to the hallucinogenic
effects of the
San Pedro cactus they were given before entering, only heightened a visual.
And psychological impact of the sculpture.
I mean, that's.
God, people are weird.
They must have had it lit up with fire or something fucking sweet.
Yeah.
Dude, it was, it, just going in there stone cold sober and feeling affected, I
can only
imagine what it was like being on San Pedro.
Is that the weirdest place that you've been to in Peru?
Um, Soxayhuaman seems to me to be the most bizarre because just the size of the
stones.
Oh yeah.
I mean.
Like how?
How?
I don't know.
What are you guys doing?
How'd you do this?
How'd you figure out to make them interlocking in a way that if there's a seismic
impact,
they stay put?
How?
And how?
How'd you get them there?
How do they look like marshmallows?
I mean.
Yeah.
Why are they, like, looks like they're melted.
I've gone on some deep dives.
It's funny on that.
Yeah.
Look at that.
Fuck, man.
The big ones on the bottom, like, how?
And it's the style of them too, which is so different where, as you said, it
looks like
marshmallows.
They're melted into place almost.
Like, look at that one big one in the center.
What the hell is that?
How big is that?
I forget, but they go up to 200 tons, I think.
That's got to be bigger than 200 tons.
Don't you think?
Probably.
I don't know.
Look how small those people are, and those people in the foreground.
Get those people right up next to that thing.
They'd be tiny.
Well, maybe it is 200 tons.
I don't know.
But either way.
Fucking nuts.
That one up there.
You know, how rounded these things are.
Yeah.
And you can't get a piece of paper.
The only way they've been dislodged is because of earthquakes.
I mean, like, it's...
Bro, look at the size of that.
And look at the way they interlock.
You can tell when you get up close.
There is this reddish residue.
Oh.
There's so much.
You can see there's often reddish residue.
So they were painted at one point in time?
No.
I think it was...
Clay?
In the Spanish...
The indigenous people will tell you that...
And actually, Percy Fawcett wrote about it in his journals, too.
Like, this bird that would take a leaf, a red leaf, and peck it into the rock.
And after a little bit of time, it would create a hole in the rock.
Like, it would kind of melt the stone.
Actually, the guy from the video, that unregistered megalithic site, told me
the same story.
Okay.
I know what you're talking about.
Right.
There's a specific type of plant that has, like, an acid to it.
An acid.
And I've started to...
I like Dr. Barnhart's theory.
And there's also a paper on it, a peer-reviewed paper by Helmut Tribuch, where
he talks about...
Look, if you mix pyrite from the offshoot of one of these Incan mines with this
plant-ish material,
you can create, like, an acid that will slightly deform the stone.
So maybe you would set the stones in place that way?
Secrets of Softened Stone, the Lost Techniques of the Incan...
From Facebook, so you know it's true.
No, no, no.
But George Lira was...
I did a whole...
Some of my early videos, man, are like research papers.
Like, I went on a deep dive with all this.
And the Spanish chroniclers talk about seeing gold in between some of the
stones.
But this guy, also, Helmut Tribuch, who wrote the paper, says,
what if it wasn't gold?
What if it was pyrite fusing the stones, helping to fuse the stones together
with this paste?
Look what it says there.
It says, the technique to carve and shape the stones remains a mystery.
According to legends, the gods would have gifted the Incas two magical plants,
Coke, so coca leaves, which allowed them to withstand pain and physical
exhaustion,
and another plant that allowed them to soften stones.
Soften stones.
But you see that red residue in between them.
That also makes sense.
They did so much work.
They're all coked up.
Fucking making these dope pyramids.
When I was a kid, this woman.
This is the picture I clicked on, but that didn't pop up.
Oh, that can't be real.
No, that's, I've seen that.
That's an artistic creation.
If you pull up, let's, do you want to stay on Cusco or go to one other place?
It's up to you, dog.
Whatever you want to do.
Let's go to tunnels, Cusco.
Dude, this whole, this whole part of the Andes.
Yeah, it's, there's tunnels everywhere, man.
Like, it's not just what they're doing.
So you're climbing down into this tunnel.
Now, is this a naturally formed hole?
Some of it.
Some of it?
Okay.
On the way out, you'll see when I, going in, there's steps.
Those were actual steps that were built.
But these things, dude, I, you can't get to the, the end.
You can't find people.
There are stories where kids get lost in these things and never found.
Oh, fuck.
So, again, these look like natural caves.
Right.
Some of them have been carved out, though.
So it's a combination of both?
It's a combination.
So probably there were some natural caves.
Yes.
And then they started carving things out.
Well, the whole thing, the whole thing about it was.
This gets weird.
So this is the steps?
Yeah, coming up on, on, on the right.
I mean, it just, it just keeps going on.
Oh, I'm not going in there.
There's the steps.
There's the steps.
Jamie, can you imagine you and me outside the door going, uh-uh.
You go first.
You go.
I'll follow you.
That's how my Quechua guide was, man.
He was just filming me.
Fuck you, bro.
I'm not going in there.
I was like, I'll go in.
There's probably demons in there.
That's like that movie.
What was that movie?
The Descent?
The Descent, dude.
That was like the big, dude.
I love that movie.
That movie's great.
I watched it a while ago.
I was like, 2005?
That's wild.
That's an old movie, yeah.
They did a Descent, too.
It's not as good.
Yeah.
This is apparently the-
It's not the best, but Descent 1 was awesome.
Yeah.
One of the best horror flicks I've ever seen.
And there's another one, huh?
This is-
Oh, fuck that hole.
Did you go in there?
Please tell me you don't have been in there.
Oh, geez, everyone in there.
Of course I did, Joe.
Of course I did.
Well.
With your Pillars of the Past shirt on.
Oh, my God, dude.
I don't even think I would fit in that hole.
I got a little scared, because coming out wasn't easy.
I was just reading about this guy who died in one of those holes.
A guy was a cave crawler, and he got stuck trying to get out.
He got in, head first, and then could not get out.
And was just stuck.
Died there.
Dude.
Like that?
Like that.
Couldn't even scream, because his chest was compressed.
Oh, God.
Yeah, I mean, there's some stuff I've done, I'm not going to do it.
And then he's at an angle like this, you know?
And just couldn't-
There's no way to get back out.
He's terrifying.
Ooh.
That's terrifying.
You know how that never happens?
You don't go in there.
You don't go in there, or you never dive in a cave.
You never dive in a cave.
I'll take that into consideration, man.
All right, before we wrap this up, anything else you want to show us?
All right, one more site.
Okay.
Chisneri, the C-H-I-S.
Which one?
There's four videos.
Let's just do the drone footage and then inside tombs.
So this place, I had no idea of places like this.
It's just me and my guide.
He's, dude, the people I met on this, it's just by happenstance.
He's the president of the community there, the little compassino,
and took 12 hours out of his day to walk me through this place.
That's cool.
That's another build it and they will come thing, right?
It really is.
Yeah, you just go out there and you'll find the right people.
Or they kill your dog.
Yeah.
Okay.
So this, like, I have a...
Oh, the paint's still on it.
It's actually not paint.
It's mud.
It's different colored mud.
Oh.
That's what he said.
So now we're going to go...
Now, in that next video, we're going to walk up to them.
Whoa.
Skulls.
The sky people.
Do you know?
No.
The Chachapoyas were much further north.
You see that skull?
These are elongated skulls.
You see that skull, right?
Yeah.
This is in the Cusco region.
Wow.
What the fuck, dude?
Yeah, man.
Why are all these dead people in that hole?
Whoa.
What's going on in there?
These were where they would bury their deceased.
They'd just chuck them in a hole?
No.
No.
They weren't like that.
They were...
So this is all just...
This is looting.
This is all looting.
That rope...
Fucking skulls are everywhere.
This is crazy.
It's wild, man.
This is like a horror movie.
This is like the beginning of a horror movie, before it gets dark out.
Right?
The guys, these archaeologists, it's probably you.
You're out there.
In the movie, you'd bring a girl with you.
You have to leave this place before the sun goes down.
100,000%.
Bro, you're going to hear voices.
You're going to hear dead languages.
No camping in the valley.
You don't have to be a gangster to fucking take a nap in there.
Ghost hunters should definitely go there.
Oh, yeah.
I'll get Sam and Colby to go down there.
I bet they won't do it.
That's real ghosts.
This is all from looting.
Wow.
So they just dug these people up.
Is it back?
Stole whatever...
Yeah, that's a spine.
Yeah.
Fuck, man.
God, there's so many bones.
That's nuts.
It's crazy, man.
That's nuts.
Well, Raul, I'm happy.
I'm so happy that you made that decision a couple years ago to just follow this
passion.
And the content that you put out is really incredible.
And the fact that you've been able to find these sites that are heretofore
undocumented, it's really amazing, man.
It's amazing.
I'm happy you're doing it.
And I really enjoyed having you on.
And for everybody who wants to watch, it's Pillars of the Past.
It's on YouTube.
Do you put videos up on X as well?
I do.
I've started putting videos up on X.
And, you know, my website's going to be up and running soon.
It's going to be a place.
If you find places and want to put it on a map and, you know, if Jamie wants to
comment on it, then he can comment on the pin you put.
I'm trying to build something because people send me stuff all the time.
Right.
You have some sort of a thriving community of people that are interested in the
same thing.
Absolutely.
Well, there's an interest for this stuff now.
I really credit Graham, Graham Hancock, I think, because he was the real
pioneer of this when people just thought he was a loon.
I remember people would make fun of me for reading his book in the late 90s.
They'd make fun of me.
Like, what are you reading this bullshit from?
Why don't you go to a real history class?
That's not fun.
No.
This is fun.
This is fun.
It's fun to think that we don't know what happened, but that something happened.
And Graham puts in the work.
He does.
I mean, just look at the citation section.
He puts in the work.
Of course.
Yeah.
He's an amazing human, you know, which is why they have to lie to discredit him.
But, you know, when he put that material out and then I think the Netflix show
really started opening up the gates to people exploring this stuff more and
just being fascinated by it and then seeking out content like yours.
And, you know, we're really fortunate now there's quite a few really good shows
that are on YouTube that document this kind of stuff.
And it's – these are real mysteries.
There's real mysteries when it comes to human history.
And to me, it's one of the most fascinating things.
I agree with you.
I love it.
So, thank you so much for doing what you do.
And get out there again and let's come back and do another one of these.
I would be happy to.
And just a few plugs.
Yeah, yeah.
Please.
I'll be speaking at a – because of all this, which is just amazing.
I still feel like everything's in its infancy.
So, I'm humbled by the opportunities that keep presenting themselves.
But, like, the Quest for Ancient Civilizations conference in Sedona and then it's
actually going to be here.
Of course it's in Sedona.
It's going to be here in Austin, too.
Of course it's here, too.
Two kooky places.
ACL Live, I think, is there.
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's an amazing venue.
That's going to be in October.
And then I'm doing a tour with Mike Collins from Wandering Wolf in the Yucatan
and with Hugh Newman.
We're doing a northern program.
Let me ask you about that.
What do you think about that sage wall?
Because he's the guy that goes over the sage wall.
You think it's a natural formation?
I think it's more likely – more likely – the way I operate is I tend to
remain skeptical.
I would like multiple pieces of evidence to be put together.
There are also similar things nearby that aren't as spectacular that are
natural, right?
I believe so, yes.
Yeah.
There's something about the geology of the area.
And I found places like that in Peru as well.
I mean, I'm waiting for – they've done LIDAR studies of that stuff.
For me, just to have one wall, I need – I personally need more than just that.
Yeah.
And, I mean, I found some stuff like that in Peru, and I'm very hesitant to say
this is megalithic architecture.
It needs more study.
For people that are interested in – just to let you know, there's a lot of AI
images online.
And when you go to look for the sage wall, sometimes you're confronted with
ones like, oh, my God, that for sure is man-made.
But then it's not a real image.
Someone's created an image or doctored the image to make it look a little bit
more man-made.
I will say, I mean, Mike Collins has done a ton of work on it.
So if you want to, like, see the original footage, it's on his channel.
Very, very interesting footage.
I mean, I go back and forth.
Yeah.
I mean, that's –
Depending on how old it is.
So that's the thing.
Like, if you're talking about something that's 30,000 years old, maybe that's
all that's left.
I forget.
He was saying – they found that it goes a lot deeper than it –
Right.
Something like that.
So it's like, for me –
Which makes it more interesting.
Which makes it more interesting.
And I'm like, I just – like, keep trying – like, let's see.
Keep figuring it out.
There's a one in Texas, too, that I haven't found a good answer for.
Yeah.
I've heard of that.
200,000 to 400,000-year-old wall?
I think a guy in 1925 claimed that and probably just got people to pay
attention and come visit.
But I don't have a good answer that I've come across on what it is or how old
it is.
Go to that one below – to the right of your cursor?
Right here?
To the right of it?
Right there.
Yeah.
Look at that.
Huh.
I will say, though –
That could be natural formation.
I mean, the Earth does a lot of weird things.
Yeah.
That's not – that's not convincing to me.
It's just interesting.
No, can I put it back up again, though?
But I'm aware of it.
I'm just like – I'm looking at that extraterrestrial.
Shut the fuck up.
Extra-terrestrials do a way better job.
They might have built the pyramids.
They didn't build this.
Fuck out of here.
It was shitty fucking scab labor.
Cobblestones, yeah.
Yeah, got non-union guys came in.
I'll do the job for cheap.
Well, maybe they got their laser beams.
Yeah.
All right.
Oh, wait a minute.
That looks real.
I think that's the guy I found when they found it.
Oh, that looks like a wall.
But there's also – I've seen four versions of this picture and one's in color.
Dude, it's so hard nowadays to –
I know.
You've got to put in some work to find the truth.
Yeah.
That is weird.
But that doesn't look real.
Yeah.
That looks like it's just the strata.
But it's not consistent all the way – what the fuck do I know?
Again, I don't even know what we're looking at.
Who knows?
That's here in Texas, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
Maybe we'll go one day.
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Thank you.
Really appreciate you.
Thank you.
It was a lot of fun today.
I really enjoyed it.
Appreciate it.
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