Mysterious Artifacts That Defy Explanation
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also when archaeologist say "it for ceremonial purposes" it means " we have no idea what its for"
That's when "pictures or it didn't happen" actually applies. (Or at least written accounts.)
saw this comment somewhere else
This is not always, or even often, true. Though it is a fallback when no other logical explanation fits.
maybe they were just statues for decoration
Or you could also read into that as "it was for ceremonial purposes that can be explained. But, that would take some time, technical jargon, and a base understanding of the Culture it is from"
Regarding the spheres I may have some insight. I have a stone sphere here at my house in Brazil. It belonged to my grandfather-in-law who took it from the Itaipu Dam in Brazil, where he was one of the original engineers responsible for building the dam. Apparently, boulders can become trapped or loosely wedged under large flows of water, i.e., immense dam flows, and are at first irregularly shaped. The constant bobbing and turning of irregularly shaped boulders wedged under large water flows eventually transforms them into perfect spheres, due to chipping and abrasion. My Grandfather-in-law found one of these stones under one of the flows that was eventually stopped, and took it home as a souvenir. It's relatively small, maybe weighing about 120 kilos, but looks exactly the same as the stones shown here.
That’s so cool!!
Super cool story, but how do you expect water to constantly keep these spheres of rock moving if heavy equipment can’t move them?
I’ve seen smaller versions of this done.
A granite stone in front of a Ripley’s believe it or not museum did the same trick.
The museum pumped water underneath a granite ball while the weight of the rock kept it pressured on the water pushing it up.
But I think a 15 ton rock would of cracked the concrete sidewalk this spectacle sat in.
If a river can create enough pressure to keep a 15 ton rock suspended in water, where is that river now?
@@kevinthielmann9408 It was a Dam, specifically the Itaipu dam, which is the largest in South America, and I think, one of the largest Dams in the World. Anyway, the water outflows from the dam are constant and massive, so it may have started as a massive irregularly shaped rock, and bobbed and chipped irregularly for many years under these massive water flows from the Dam, until it became spherical. I would imagine that, at first, the stone is not a sphere. I would also imagine that at first it's not moving a whole lot, but rather jutting around just a little under the massive dam flows. A little bit of jutting around will result in small chips to the stone. This in turn would free up more space to jut around. In all, this process repeats itself until the rock is ultimately freer to move around more, thus more chipping, and in turn, over time, making it more spherical.
This theory actually makes immense amounts of sense when one considers the intense water flows likely to have occurred during the endings of the various ice ages as the glaciers melted en masse. A very very compelling theory, indeed.
That sounds so plausible
May you live a blessed life for clearly stating that mysterious objects are NOT due to ghosts or aliens.
Unless he's a fed
He ALWAYS says that.
One of my fav channels where I have to sometimes slow down the video lol😂
The spheres are clear evidence that Target stores have been around far longer than we knew!
I thought only mine had that! Good to know!
"Las piedras redondas" are not a mystery at all, today. They we're used to mark tombs of important people. The more important you were the bigger the sphere. Luckily, for us, in the islands near to the coast of Costa Rica there are, also this "piedras redondas" and mostly were left untouched.
Also, Costa Rica, is not know for it's archeological sites because... it's not a priority for the government to dig in ancient sites as they make most of the money from nature tourism. As I was there we crossed some ancients sites, on one of them we asked the size, 20 hectares of which the have properly excavated 300 square meters. At this rate in one thousand years we will know a lot more about the ancient civilizations that populated what we today call Costa Rica.
I came to the comment section just to like this one thing
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Or some cosmic troll job. Either way it's weird.
Simon: No one really knows what these large rocky spheres were used for.
Indiana Jones: Have you seen NONE of my movies?
Actual educated scientists: These round stones are natural and occur all over the world. There's even a name for the process that formed them, but I'll let you look it up for yourself.
@@freedapeeple4049 Ya wrong. its for the booby trap in the temple.
@@jezpin3638 d'oh! Of course! What was I thinking?
@@freedapeeple4049 before you try to big brain this don't forget there's tool markings easy seen from a steel pick on the rocks surface there is natural boulders that form but they are not nearly this perfect or in the environment where it takes peaks for these boulders to form and fall from.
@@freedapeeple4049 proof is in the links.
As someone who lives in Qinghai, thank you for actually pronouncing Qinghai well. I think you're the first CZcamsr I've listened to who talked about the Baigong pipes who actually pronounced Qinghai, Baigong, and Xinhua well.
Yet, he somehow mispronounce cadmium.
@@magnetospin and Aluminum! lol
If we list all his mispronunciations, we will be here all day 😂🤣
And Topkapı
See the last letter?
It's not an 'I'.
It's a Turkish letter 'I".
Its sound is a short 'uh'.
So the Topkapı Palace is pronounced Top-Kap-Uh.
@@regularsizeruss3874 Aluminium in English ;)
Hey Simon, Here is a therory for the origin of the aluminum "tooth". My late uncle was a famous inventor of high performance aircraft. He explained the origin of airplane aluminum as an abscent minded mistake in a mill. A small amount of copper was accidentally dumped into a bucket of nearly pure aluminum. So they poured and cooled the mix and were shocked at it's strength and light weight. Then they made many more experimental batches of the mix, until they got the best ratio. I will bet this thing was a part on a plane that fell off and embedded deep into the soil. After all, who would make an excavator tooth out of aluminum?
Makes sense to me
How or why would it fall off the plane
If you don't maintain a plane well, shit falls off. DC10 airliners were infamous for parts falling off them.
It doesn't explain the advanced oxidation, or why it was removed from display and further investigation. No I don't think it was aliens, I think it is an anomaly that should be researched further... except we can't.
@@Drud I'd like to point out that 80 years ago there was a big war in Europe where airplanes made of aluminum routinely shot at each other, and Romania did in fact participate in that war. Very possible parts got shot off a plane and ended up very far away from wherever the rest of the airplane ended up.
I love how these things "Defy Explanation".. save for Simon's snide comments after each item lol
This guy could actually be a good content creator if he wasn't such a condescending douche. Instead of enjoying the content I spent my time cringing at how big this baldies' ego is, it's astonishing, it's up the with a Baldwin. Trust the science, if you don't believe me i'll discredit your character! cOnSpIrAcY ThEoRisTs!
@@socore3197 There's something to be said trusting in science. Unfortunately too many people with a GED think they know much more than they really do. That is a fact...
@@socore3197 I mean, he's not even being condescending, just exasperated. Science exists for a reason and should be trusted for a reason. People who ignore it in favor of wild fantasies have that right, just as those of us more grounded in reality as we understand it have equal right to berate their ideas. Plus if you consider labeling someone a conspiracy theorist to be an attack on their character, that says a lot.
@@socore3197 dude I completely agree! I'll never watch his content again......
9:42 I challenge Simon "go looking for an excavator with a missing tooth" to go out and find ANY excavator with any kind of aluminum tooth! Aluminum is one of the softest metals there is. You would have to replace the tooth after every other bucket full. Just because you try to present yourself as some kind of authority on something, it doesn't mean you are.
Something shows up that we don’t understand;
"Ah, yes, clearly these are for ceremonial/religious purpose."
ceremonialy rolled down hill onto villagers who don,t do as they are told.
Yes throw everything suspicious into a bag that nobody cares about so nobody will look into it.
My favorite is... "these were used for astronomical purposes because you can see the moon through this random hole in the ceiling once a month". Even as a kid I used to think these theories were ridiculous.
Considering most of, if not all humankind that ever lived across our globe prior to our scientific methods have used a religious faith system in some way to guide them, yes that is a logical first assumption.
@@bojnebojnebojne Except that's just the default historian take. Sure, there's things that we can see written accounts of in history that was definitely religious, but to assume everything we *don't* understand is just some religious mumbo jumbo is just ridiculous. The people who lived even 6000 years ago had the same brain of people who live today, we're not any smarter than they were. For all we know, some of these ancient sites may very well have been for scientific purposes, not religious. The lack of written records just leaves it to speculation. Writing it off as "religious site A, B and C" is just historians being lazy about it.
Something you left out about the Piri Reis map is that it showed Antarctica and geological formations that only would have been visible before the Younger Dryas cataclysmic. The Younger Dryas event is very well substantiated.
Yes, agreed. The map,shows rivers and apparently undersea silt confirms that rivers did empty into the seas.
I love your reactions to some of the theories of others regarding these artifacts. Love listening/watching your channels.
"What a ridiculous explanation. Of course it isn't aliens or ghosts!" - Bigfoot.
The History Channel deals with aliens. The Travel Channel deals with ghosts. I miss the good old days, when they dealt with history and travel, respectively.
Don’t give them any ideas. Ghost aliens would be the sign of the end of time.
Not to mention Animal Planet still in search of Bigfoot after all these years, still with no proof lol
Oh How the Mighty have fallen.
I used to watch these old shows about the history of the railways around 20 years ago. They were interesting and informative and of course, no longer in production or on in reruns.
Yeah. Why not the Alien Channel and Ghost Channel?
I think the aluminium artifact is unlikely to be part of an excavator bucket as it's comparatively soft and will wear quickly.
This type of thing is usually made of work-hardening steel.
Exactly and it would be welded to the main body of the bucket
Aluminum alloys have been and still are used in excavator bucket teeth and they are removable and replaceable. The alloys used have a similar composition to the wedge.
Wow, aluminum is way, way too soft to be used as excavator teeth. It would only, only be used where no sparks would be allowed and then they would use a copper alloy as it is way hard than aluminum. Aluminum has never been used for backhoe teeth. Sheesh.
@@brianrassler2010 I'm looking at an aluminum bucket tooth right now, it may not be the same shape and size as that one, it is made of aluminum. The so-called artifact could have possibly come off a bucket used in an environment where no sparks were allowed and they neglected to change it out.
Alloys were developed to change the properties of metals being used, make them harder, more elastic, less brittle, the item in question is no doubt made up of an alloy. Look up the composition of 2000 series aluminum. It's extremely similar to what this thing is made of.
@@pictlandpickers1171 They're held in place with a pin.
Those hexagonal vertical rocks in China are definately a well known igneous (volcanic) rock type. I've seen similar rocks on the shoreline at Eden NSW Australia. Edit: yes, its basalt the most common igneous rock, and the process of forming the hexagons is called Columnar jointing.
Dude really? There have been lots of volcanoes, but hexagonal rocks are pretty rare. It is totally sus until someone shows me experimental evidence of lava that solidifies that way.
There's also the Giant's Causeway in Ireland
@@worldcomicsreview354 Yes they look really similar to the rock formations, though smaller, making up the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland. Which is a basalt formation made by an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. Making up hexagonal columns.
@@kayakMike1000 bro check giants causeway in ireland, the midt amazing basalt hexagon pillars like these but black
@@kayakMike1000 Read up on Geological processes you twat, these formations are VERY common with Basalt extrusions, besides you wouldn't recognize 'experimental' evidence even in it slapped you in your face.
When I took a stone sculpture class our first exercise was to carve a cube into a sphere, just to learn technique and how the stone reacts to the different tools.
I like the theory I read once, that those stone balls, and these other perfectly flat and perfect stone rectangles were the equivalent of the aluminum cube test for modern day fabricators. Nascar welders have to make perfect cubes of aluminum with perfect welds, and they’re tested to prove their skill.
Perhaps ancient craftsman did similar things to practice and learn and show off their skills to earn jobs, or prove their worth as a maker.
It’s something mankind has always done… creative people tinker and make and create, for other reason than… because. Cave art, statues and toys.. it goes back millennia!
Another cool theory is practicality. Stone cylinders were found near an old civilization and the theory is that they would carve the stone round, and then roll it to where it’s needed and then hack it into useable bricks from there. Perhaps those spheres were something similar… maybe they were rolled down the mountain from the quarry and then broken into building materials?
Likely one of the smartest comments on here.
Wow thats a great idea about the spheres
Maybe they were good for milling larger quantities of grain, too?
Both are exactly what first came to my mind!
Thanks for this...far greater (closer to the truth theories) theories come from sober common sense then spliff smoking daydreams.....no judgement on spliff smokers mind you, just hard go corral a group into a hard science, qualitative hypothesis developing answer of any scrutiny...or so I’ve been told. 🙊🙉🙈🔬🤠😉
As a collecter of antique maps I can state that cartographers often added whatever they thought was needed to complete the geography.
That is a crazy assertion tbh. Putting things on a map for no reason is literally the exact opposite of their lifelong profession. These were mathematicians, who trained at formal colleges, and whose entire job was to go somewhere and write down what it looks like. If they just wrote down random shit, there would be no point in spending a large fortune to send them out....
you have too much faith@@N8Dulcimer
@@N8Dulcimer So, according to you, 'scientists' that fake data to become famous (or get more grants) don't exist. How about conmen masquerading as scientists or cartographers?
“I also think they don’t know what substantiate means” this made my day! 😂😂😂
Hydrocephalus is the most likely that skull is in that form. My little brother, who is dead now, had Hydrocephalus and his skull shape was identical to the one being shown in this video, of which I've seen his ex-rays as proof of the matter. Additionally, I don't know if other people born of this condition has had the same feature that my brother's brain had, which was separated down the middle, but still remained attached at the ends, if I'm remembering correctly. He lived to a little over 50 years, which made him the oldest living specimen at the time, so I was told. He wasn't much different from other people mentally or emotionally, however, his memory was absolutely mind blowing better than most people I've known. Anyhow, I thought I'd just throw that out there for people to ponder. If you have any questions regarding what I remember of my brother, please feel free to ask.
Where was he born when meaning what yr
And how did he pass if its not too painful
I'm glad that your brother lived so long with his condition...I hope his life was happy and full of love. ❤️
Did his condition cause other health issues?
@@ms.szorro8583 He was born in Stockton, California, but I'm unable to remember what year he was born. I can find out easy enough later on, when my sister gets off work in Minnesota; she pays more attention to dates than I do. LOL It seems to me though, that he was born sometime in the mid 1960s. I can post the date for you this evening. Cool?
@@ms.szorro8583 As for his death, by no means will that bother me at all. The way he died will blow your mind, as it did mine, I'm sure. Again, I'm not good at remembering dates, so that is another thing I'll need to post for you later, however, I was there during his death and can tell you all about that. As I believe I'd mentioned in the original post, doctors had told us that my brother, Eddie, was the oldest to live throughout the world after being born with hydrocephalus, which made us feel pretty good, because we had him in our lives for that amount of time at least. If you'd met him, you couldn't help but to love him because he was special in many ways. To get back on track though and save other facts of his life for another time, if you wish to learn more, I'll begin at about 6 months prior to the date that he died. Firstly, I guess that you should know that all was a naturally accuring manner of death in Eddie's case.
Six months prior to his death, we were staying with my sister, Diane, in Whitehall, Wisconsin. One day, while he and I were the only people in the living room watching television, he called me over to his where he was sitting and, first, asked me when Easter was, so I told him when it was. Then straight out, he said, "That's about when I'm going to die." Jokingly, I asked him how he knows that and all he said was, "I don't know how I know, I just know that I will be dying around Easter." That knocked me back a bit, but he wasn't a person to lie about anything, so I knew immediately, that it must be true. He let it be known to me that I was the light and love of his life and that I always will be, which made me feel proud of him, just as much and echoed my love back to him. Shortly after that conversation, he was set up with Hospice right there at Diane's and, as I sat right there in his chair, I was the only one to watch him take his last breath. Quietly, with only pure silence, I clearly heard him say nothing, not even a moan or sigh, pass on to the other side, exactly one week to the day after Easter. From that moment forward, I knew he was and always be my brother and my Angel.
There's more to the story, of course, but I don't want to bore you too badly, so I'll close here for now. Feel free to ask anything else about him, any time....
The thing with the aluminium wedge is, bucket teeth on diggers that I’ve ever worked on are all made from hardened steel. Aluminium would wear out way to fast, but I have to say it is what I immediately thought of, perhaps aluminium toothed diggers have been used for very soft ground but I’d have thought steel would still be cheaper. Interesting show this one, thanks Simon
Someone in another comment pointed out that aluminum teeth would be useful for applications where sparking could cause an explosion hazard.
Totally agree his explanation was less credible than UFO in my opinion needs to work on this one. Plus the formation of a patina is a very difficult thing to artificially replicate and is equally hard to explain on this particular item.
@@spugintrntl hydro excavators are used where this is a problem, not big metal buckets.
Quite agree ...Regarding the aluminium thingy. It is highly unlikely to be an excavator tooth. These are usually/often made of high tungsten /iron metals as they are very prone to ablation due to friction with soils/rock etc. Even then they have to be replaced ...aluminium would never cut it.
My first thought was that it looked like part of some heavy machinery.
Romania was behind the Iron Curtain, so I suppose it's possible they may have used / experimented with different materials. Also it could have been part of some mine-clearing device after WW2. Though you'd think a machine you expect to be blown up regularly, and thus need replacement parts a lot, would be made very cheaply.
Thank you so much for saying "raising the question" instead of "begging the question." As a former English teacher, that always bugs me...yet another reason why I love this channel (and my name is also Simon)!
I'm guessing the rare aluminium plates owned by kings and rich people also doubled as hats just in case they needed them! 🤣🤣🤣
Simon’s flippant attitude toward extraterrestrials is really alienating me
Ba-dum-tss!
Me to it felt like he was really talking down the idea to point I felt stupid even thinking there was a very small chance
BA DA BUM BUM TSHSHSHSHSHSHHHHHHHH
@@skyesworld6160 Rest secure in the knowledge that you are officially less of an ignorant tea bag than Simon.
Do not feel stupid for thinking there's a small chance because the US government literally last year came out with every scrap of evidence they have and it is irrefutable that alien craft do exist and visit this planet on a regular basis that is the official position now and this guy is pretending like it's wackadoo.
How can he pretend to be this intelligent when he only uses half of his mind?
@@natecloe8535 You're taking the OPs comment too literally. It's a joke. Extraterrestrials - alienating. It's a pun.
Mysterious Artefacts that defy explanations?
Our fridge, everytime I'm hungry it's empty but when I'm not hungry it's full to the brim ._.
How do you know it's full when you're not hungry? Are you checking it when you're not hungry? Why?
@@NajwaLaylah Yes. Habit. Bad habits.
When i buy soft cookies they get hard and when i get hard cookies they get soft. We might never have answers to the deepest questions...
@@JohnSmith-kf1fc this feels like a bad Viagra joke lmao.
Sorry n shit, my inner MTG geek is raging about your spelling of artifacts. Hes actually screaming louder than my inner history geek, go figure.
Def just subbed before the first 10 seconds of this video. So happy I found your channel! This stuff is so great to listen to while working!
Wait till you find his other 10 channels in the description
Your assertions are interesting for someone covering such topics.
I don’t know what that aluminium object is but it’s definitely not an “excavator tooth”.
Excavator teeth are made of solid steel, aluminium is far to soft.
My thoughts exactly. This points to Simon as being a professional SKEPTIC...!
👍My first thought too cause I used to repair them lol
simon: go look for an excavator with a missing tooth" better, go look for an excavator with an aluminium tooth. lol!!!
@JoostVermaat you're absolutely right... Anything powered by hydraulics needs to be made of high density steel... Jaws of life, for example.
This was my kneejerk reaction too, but decided to dig into it and Aluminum teeth, among other non-ferrous metals are used on excavators where sparks have a potential to get a little too exciting. Don't envy those maintenance guys though as having to change out teeth is a pain in the ass. Though going up in a fireball would suck more.
Those stone spheres are amazing. I always imagined that some wealthy king had a contest with a huge prize to make a perfect sphere from stone, to create a sort of ancient “x prize” to improve stone working tools and techniques.
Or the prize was to dumbfound future generations.
@@TheMeatMon mission accomplished
You have a guy able to order people around, his only resource is rocks, shits gonna get built.
The *Rex X Prize*
The reward is that you don’t get burned at the stake.
I love the O.O.P. subject. Again a great episode. Keep up the interesting shows. Thanks.
I distinctly remember being a kid and going to a museum here in CR and just. climbing and playing on some stone spheres. I don't know why they let us do that but they did- I think it's cool to think about how so many years ago other people touched and interacted with the same stones I played among as a kid that time
I live in south Texas. When the fracking boom hit, there was a lot of digging in the area. There were a lot perfectly round sand stone boulders of different sizes being pulled out of the ground. Some were canon ball size. Others basketball size and some around five feet in diameter. Locally a lot of people have them as decoration in their yards. Supposedly a theory is that ancient volcano heated up mud and bubbles got trapped in the mud forming the perfectly round rocks.
That's actually the best theory I've heard yet
My family has property about 30 miles southeast of Dallas, the soil is a fine sand and lots of clay of various colors. We find those stone balls there also, some of then have a dull yellow crystal inside I've heard called Lemonite. Some of them are segmented with crystal borders and when exposed to freezing they come apart like a puzzle. Sometimes they are double, fuzed together and my brother has one with a corkscrew shape growing out of it. They do make great yard art. We find them in stream beds also.
@@rowgler1 we live in Dallas area! Please tell me where. I wanna take my kids
There's an area in New Zealand which has got lots of giant stone sphere's called the Moeraki Boulders and a another part of New Zealand has also got another bunch of giant spheres called the Koutu Boulders. The sphere's have been subjected to a lot of testing and were found to be geological phenomenons, despite many being almost perfectly spherical and some quite massive (the larger specimens measuring nearly 7ft wide).
New Zealands mystery boulder spheres are in fact concretions made up of a mixture of mud, silt and clay hardened by calcite. 66-56 million years ago the area was deep under the water in the ocean and the ocean floor substrate was made up of fine marine mud silt. Calcium in the mud began to precipitate and gradually over millions of years, helped formed the surrounding substrate in sphere-shaped concretions. Sometimes the spherical concretions built up around a fossil that was lying in the seabed (such as a marine reptile bone or tooth), whilst other boulders are hollow on the inside. The boulders are quite famous because after being naturally eroded out of the mudstone that they were formed in, quite a number of them lie strewn across the beach in clusters that could easily be mistaken for some sort of modern art installation.
Here is an image of the Moeraki Boulders www.newzealand.com/assets/Tourism-NZ/Waitaki/85714a3347/img-1542261577-3833-781-0179A7C6-B607-B762-6169D9B6F6E173E4__aWxvdmVrZWxseQo_FocalPointCropWzQyMCw5NjAsNTAsNTAsNzUsImpwZyIsNjUsMi41XQ.jpg
This natural geological phenomenon of spherical concetions is far from unique to New Zealand though, with a variety of other places across the world sporting their own giant spherical balls made of different minerals, rocks & metals, such as "Bowling Ball Beach" in Northern California: www.onlyinyourstate.com/northern-california/unusual-beach-norcal/
"The Valley of Balls" in Torysh, Kazakhstan: www.atlasobscura.com/places/valley-balls-rocks
The “Moqui Marbles” of the Navajo Sandstone Formation, Utah: i.pinimg.com/originals/cd/44/09/cd4409837560e91f5aadb1b6860f96ae.jpg
And washing up Canada's artic shoreline (really stunning specimen here!): www.quarrymagazine.com/2020/08/07/unnaturally-round-rock-spheres-are-perfectly-natural/
More spherical concretions locations: pacificnorthwestadventures.weebly.com/blog/what-on-earth-is-a-concretion , www.travelalberta.com/uk/listings/athabasca-river-wilderness-experiences-5178/ .
There's even a gemstone called "Birds nest aragonite" which if you break it open, is full of loose little spherical balls: the-earth-story.com/post/178182617676/birds-nest-aragonite-also-known-as-cave-pearls
So there really isn't any need for ancient civilisations using advanced metal working to create perfect spherical balls as these things can simply occur in nature. It doesn't mean that the balls weren't a part of the natives narratives though, with New Zealanders having myths and stories surrounding the Moeraki and Koutu Boulders and in Northern Australia, the aborignes having their local legends surrounding the "Devils Marbles" (although those concretions aren't that spherical, they're still formed by the same sorts of geological processes).
@@maywalker997 very interesting, and appreciate the links you gave...(!) 🙏 Although I didn't think the ones in the first was really spherical, (thought they more "blob"-like,) the Canadian ones looked very like the ones in this video... and with your explanation of how some of the New Zealandian formed in mud on the ocean floor, and since got lifted out of the ocean, and then washed out the surrounding soil, that got me thinking, that maybe those stones in the video once were lying in shallow water, and got washed around by waves, and thus got rounded to their now ball-like shape, before they too got lifted out of the sea. Why they are all perfectly above ground, I guess could be down to humans digging them out, and rolling them around to were they wanted them situated...
I imagine that at the end of Simon's life he'll be awakened from his throne by a sudden blinding light, and out of this light will come an alien figure that will say to Simon: "Are you ready to go you Legend?"
Is Simon the god emperor of mankind ?
Awakened 'from his throne'? Are you saying that Mr. Whistler will die on the toilet?
He shall reply "SMASH THAT DISLIKE BUTTON!"
@@wingwong143 Maybe more Malcador the Sigilitte?
@@NajwaLaylah Nah man, you get a throne if you're king 👑
I love how you overlook the fact that excavator teeth are NOT made from alum, but steel.
Thought the same but maybe they broke a tooth and only had some extra aluminum laying around and machined that into a tooth for the excavator bucket. Prob more likely than aliens. Although i work at a heavy equipment company and never seen a tooth made like that so who knows
Hum, he doesn't. He said exactly the opposite of your assertion. Were you drunk or just dim?
8:40 this is the defining statement for so many of simons videos and his delivery in this one was perfect.
1:00 - Chapter 1 - Piri reis map
4:05 - Chapter 2 - Baigon pipes
6:45 - Chapter 3 - Aiud aluminium wedge
9:50 - Chapter 4 - Giant spheres of costa rica
12:10 - Chapter 5 - Starchild skull
There's an area in New Zealand which has got lots of giant stone sphere's called the Moeraki Boulders and a another part of New Zealand has also got another bunch of giant spheres called the Koutu Boulders. The sphere's have been subjected to a lot of testing and were found to be geological phenomenons, despite many being almost perfectly spherical and some quite massive (the larger specimens measuring nearly 7ft wide).
New Zealands mystery boulder spheres are in fact concretions made up of a mixture of mud, silt and clay hardened by calcite. 66-56 million years ago the area was deep under the water in the ocean and the ocean floor substrate was made up of fine marine mud silt. Calcium in the mud began to precipitate and gradually over millions of years, helped formed the surrounding substrate in sphere-shaped concretions. Sometimes the spherical concretions built up around a fossil that was lying in the seabed (such as a marine reptile bone or tooth), whilst other boulders are hollow on the inside. The boulders are quite famous because after being naturally eroded out of the mudstone that they were formed in, quite a number of them lie strewn across the beach in clusters that could easily be mistaken for some sort of modern art installation.
Here is an image of the Moeraki Boulders www.newzealand.com/assets/Tourism-NZ/Waitaki/85714a3347/img-1542261577-3833-781-0179A7C6-B607-B762-6169D9B6F6E173E4__aWxvdmVrZWxseQo_FocalPointCropWzQyMCw5NjAsNTAsNTAsNzUsImpwZyIsNjUsMi41XQ.jpg
This natural geological phenomenon of spherical concetions is far from unique to New Zealand though, with a variety of other places across the world sporting their own giant spherical balls made of different minerals, rocks & metals, such as "Bowling Ball Beach" in Northern California: www.onlyinyourstate.com/northern-california/unusual-beach-norcal/
"The Valley of Balls" in Torysh, Kazakhstan: www.atlasobscura.com/places/valley-balls-rocks
The “Moqui Marbles” of the Navajo Sandstone Formation, Utah: i.pinimg.com/originals/cd/44/09/cd4409837560e91f5aadb1b6860f96ae.jpg
And washing up Canada's artic shoreline (really stunning specimen here!): www.quarrymagazine.com/2020/08/07/unnaturally-round-rock-spheres-are-perfectly-natural/
More spherical concretions locations: pacificnorthwestadventures.weebly.com/blog/what-on-earth-is-a-concretion , www.travelalberta.com/uk/listings/athabasca-river-wilderness-experiences-5178/ .
There's even a gemstone called "Birds nest aragonite" which if you break it open, is full of loose little spherical balls: the-earth-story.com/post/178182617676/birds-nest-aragonite-also-known-as-cave-pearls
So there really isn't any need for ancient civilisations using advanced metal working to create perfect spherical balls as these things can simply occur in nature. It doesn't mean that the balls weren't a part of the natives narratives though, with New Zealanders having myths and stories surrounding the Moeraki and Koutu Boulders and in Northern Australia, the aborignes having their local legends surrounding the "Devils Marbles" (although those concretions aren't that spherical, they're still formed by the same sorts of geological processes).
this is asinine
Wow, very cool! I had no idea there were so many examples of stone spheres all over the world. Thanks for all the info and sharing those links! 👍🏼
@@yourt00bz you got a better explanation ?
I actually saw those about a month ago. There's even one still stuck in the cliff wall. I when to a museum that had dozens of smaller ones too.
Apparently near perfectly round concretions are pretty common. What's rare is how big they can get.
In support of your concretion explanation I notice fault lines that fossil hunters seem to be adept at locating in the video at 10:11 and 10:23. The con to this explanation is the variety of stones the spheres are composed of. Perhaps it is a mixed collection?
This is gold. Thanks for rational perspectives
I think it's funny, every time archaeologists find something they can't explain, they say the objects were used for religious purposes.
I am an author and love videos like this as it gives me ideas. The vast majority of them I'll never use, but it still keeps the creative brain well lubricated. Some videos I just blip through to get the names of the objects or location or whatever, but I love watching yours. Mostly because you offer all sides of the story (even if you think a side is absolute bunk)
The spheres are obviously the remains of the UFO version of Truck Nuts.
clearly.
@@Sideprojects You don't watch movies and yet you know what truck nuts are? You watch John Oliver don't you?
Lol!!
@@Sideprojects This guy could actually be a good content creator if he wasn't such a condescending douche. Instead of enjoying the content I spent my time cringing at how big this baldies' ego is, it's astonishing, it's up the with a Baldwin. Trust the science, if you don't believe me i'll discredit your character! cOnSpIrAcY ThEoRisTs!
Hahahahahahaha...... your nuts 🤪🤣😂
TIL hats have actually gotten slightly less silly over time 👒
The pipes are actually fossilized bamboo, btw
Your skepticism and sarcasm are what I found most enjoyable about this video 😅
Leave those pipes alone and let Baigongs be Baigongs! (I'm sorry, I had to.)
hahahahahaha good one ! you win the best comment of 2021
gawd.
I knew someone would make this comment.
😂😂😂💀
So, this tiny alien hit a cliff with his space ship and knocked off one of the aluminum landing feet, so he went to a nearby island to make some spherical rocks as a replacement part. On the way he dropped his map of Antarctica. He had no idea what those weird rock pipes are.
I’ve not seen this video yet but reading your comment I already know what you are talking about 😂
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What you say is true.. when he landed he also ran into some cows which he thought were the main lifeform here so he kidnapped a few and wrote an 'i owe you' in the nearby field.. When the IRS came knocking, he kidnapped them and did some nasty experiments on them, so they might suffer as they had made him suffer and a few years later he ran for president and won..
There was population resets that meant technology created centuries ago cant be created today,
Same thing that is going to happen soon!
yes aliens were involved?
By jove, I think he's got it!
LOVE LEARNING WITH YOU AND THOUGHTY 2, I always thought you two could collab and debate your opinions and it'd be comedy gold ❤
The amount of snark in this video is off the chart. And I love it ! Very interesting video, thanks for sharing.
My dad found a perfectly round rock a long time ago while working construction digging out some stuff for GE back in the 80s. It ended up a table center piece in the dining room my whole life.
The purpose of the stone spheres of Costa Rica: "Here kids, go play with these".
Really enjoy ALL your videos.... have you ever done anything on the Orion Correlation Theory (that the great pyramids are, maybe, a star map of the Orion constellation)?
Surprising encounters between travelers from ancient civilizations please !
The History Channel where our motto is "we deal with everything that's not History related"
"Where history is history"
Sadly it's hard to find any content source that's not making garbage. The problem isnt the network, it's the viewers. I couldn't be friends with someone who falls for those shows
"If it doesn't have a history, we'll make one up!"
MTV - Music? We dont have it
Discovery - Car? Yes we do
@@Banidil The problem is really profitability. People like stupid fake crap, but they also like well crafted and deeply researched factual shows. But guess which is cheaper to make?
Peasant: How do we make a massive ball of stone? It'll take forever as steel hasn't been invented yet.
Regent: You had better get the ball rolling, then.
I remember seeing a video about round boulders being formed in roundish depressions in the rock floor of a river. The rock swirls around in the depression, gradually making them both rounder. If your boulders are so old, that landscape where they were found could have been very different, like wet...river-ish...
Man, this video is was great at showcasing intriguing historical anomalies and then just shitting on any possibility of them being actually interesting. Incredible.
This was just a debunk video with 1 actual mystery relic thrown in as a gimme.
Heavy equipment parts aren't generally made out of aluminum. Especially the teeth on a bucket. I operate equipment! Looks similar though. I'll go with the 👽 landing gear lol
It does not have to be ALIEN....there are leftover relics from whatever pre younger dryas, pre flood civilization all around even north America!!! For example I live only 30-45 min drive from waffle rock, another famous O.O.P.A.rt!!!!
I was going to say it doesn't look like any bucket teeth I've seen, steel and hollow to fit over the solid smaller tooth also steel. But it does look man made part of some machine, I would suspect digging under a moving body of water may have caused upper layers to be moved or mixed with lower layers (guessing here).
Although Nate if someone did make a bucket out of AL you could see that it would be torn apart the first time it was used, haha.
@James Smith yea exactly. Lol aluminum wouldn't last a day of operating.
@@JasonRatcliff7896 I was being a smart ass. Lol it's for sure not a tooth from a heavy equipment bucket. That's all I ment 😂
@@COYOTE_N8 Possibly apart of a ww2 aircraft?
It is fun to ponder the origins of strange items but yeah, the simplest explanation is usually the right one.
OOPARTs lol, this clip is going to be great!
"I also don't think they know what substantiate means" I about died laughing at this.... Simon is killing it in this episode
Yes, and I loved the clip inserted of the man who was completely covered in aluminum foil and waving! 8:30
A dozer tooth is made of steel.
It was funny.......because substantiation would only occur if a federal entity officially announced that they have mountains of data to prove alien craft have been visiting for centuries. They would need to release military eye witness statements, radar data, picture, video, groups devoted to finding more info about them.....no chance in hell any country would ever.........wait.....what!?.....the U.S. did ALL of that less than a year ago?
I'll be damned......they DID know what substantiated meant. Guess that makes Simon the dumb one..........huh.......who knew?
I've lived my whole life in Costa Rica, and as a child I remember seeing this sphere rocks as decorations in historical sites or in the houses of the most rich and powerful people here, never really gave it much mind until I discovered that the were seeing as oddities because of the nature of how they were made, today it honestly just makes me proud of the indigenous people this my country, and their amazing craftmanship
What if they were natural volcanic origen?
@@thomasewing2656 I think the evidence for them being naturally made far out weighs the evidence that they're man made.
@@thomasewing2656 how many vulkans u know that are on Balkan Europe ? None but my home country has this spheres too I seen them many times
@@thomasewing2656I Huh vi
@@adamcrux6829v: Hu v:
It's fascinating how the greater effort is toward bending the facts to fit prevailing theories, rather than otherwise. Doesn't inspire confidence in their conclusions, to say the least.
It's worth mentioning that the protruding rocks in the Baigon PIpes discussion at 4:18 min closely resemble basalt columns found in various locations around the globe.
The qualifications to be a ghost hunter are a budget that allows for a night vision camera and the ability to say “Oh my god! Did you hear that!” at any random moment.
I used to work at a pub that had a "paranormal investigations team", a scruffy couple who would sell "investigation nights" to tourists, acting like it was a big investigation night. Every week they would stomp through the pub as if they were emergency services acting to stop some big cataclysm. It wasn't the fact they did this shit that bothered me, it was the his and her matching T-shirts with "Paranormal investigations team" written in all caps on the back. Each week a little part of me died...
@@matthewyabsley Adults who still to play Ghostbusters.
@@matthewyabsley Yeah. I occasionally wander round my local church at night holding an old multimeter (minus leads). I find that whenever I stumble into something large and heavy in the dark I simultaneously hear mysterious crashing sounds followed by muffled cursing. Sometimes I find unexplained bruises and cuts. Clearly the work of the Black Abbott/ Blue Lady/ White Horse/ Darth Vader etc etc
@@01782644468 - I can see the problem, you brought woo measuring equipment but you didn't channel the woo prior or during. Can you repeat the experiment by loudly yelling woo woo, wooooooh. I think that might help.
@@matthewyabsley I'll give it a go, but my main aim is to not capture any paranormal behaviour on camera, but then talk at length on (say) Living TV about all the astonishing things that I didn't manage to film but definitely experienced, oh yes.
Of the 5 artifacts in this video, I find the stone balls the most interesting. The other artifacts seem to have more plausible explanations.
The balls were the only interesting item on the list.
Ihz
Probably giant dung beetles
He he, balls. (Its the internet, someone had to lmao)
The skull?
The Accronym is OOPA’s. Love the Whistlerverse though
Not that I would feel that 'Aliens' can never be a viable explanation, but arrogance and attitude is always a sign of extreme weakness.
Well said my friend. It’s unfortunate
One guy from Costa Rica made a small round rock and said "Look, I made a perfectly round rock". His brother-in-law said "Hold my coconut" and made a bigger round rock. This went on for about two and a half years until their wives told them "Neither of us have been fu**** in years, you either quit playing with your balls or we are leaving".
And then their neighbors finally noticed the round rocks, and decided they needed to have the biggest balls. And so it continued.
As a warhammer player .. this calls to me !
Funniest thing I heard all day.
Excavator teeth are made from hardened steel.
Yep I was going to say the same thing. I've never seen an aluminum bucket tooth. Aluminum Is far to soft to be durable in a excavator bucket applications
Because Im still 6... He he, hardened.
well that's it then..gotta be da aliens
He casually throws in a random explanation. He does a disservice to the subject by obviously not willing to entertain other theories. I personally don’t believe the Alien idea. But the Pi one is quite interesting. If they want to discount it as some disease they should show many examples of it occurring elsewhere.
I just found some for sale on alibaba. They use non-steel alloy if working around flammables that could be ignited by sparks. You didn't know, but now you do. Go do your own research if you don't believe me.
Just found you! Love your frankness👍🏻👍🏻
shouldn't we be decoding these? ;) Love your stuff, especially the longer form shows!
You’d never ever use aluminium as a Excavator tooth it’s way too weak to use on wear items like that
I was gonna say. That shit is hardened steel.
Absolutely a misinformed suggestion of his. Buckets and the teeth are made from either steel or iron or a version of either. Also, the freakin word is pronounced ALOO MIN UM not aloominium. There is no i after the n. Cheeky Brits and their know it all sass. He is fun to watch though.
It is always interesting how some academics are so quick to ridicule theories that shake up what they are comfortable repeating, but so willfully ignorant how some of their theories are completely ridiculous when applied to reality.
@@vinsanity1976 The British spelling and pronunciation is "aluminium."
@TheTMKF That may be true, but the Chapter 3 title spells it "aluminum" and the description pictures show the "aluminum" spelling as well. All I am asking for is consistency lol
3:30 I could believe someone made a trip to Antarctica in ancient times and made a map that this guy used as reference. There’s a lot of great achievements that have been lost to the ages. I don’t know that people would have cared all that much about people discovering some land way down south as it really wouldn’t have affected their lives
And other suggestions say it matches up pretty well will south America. Could even have been just made up.... Hm which is more likely?
You may like Graham Hancock
@@nicknewman1526 Hancock and making things up? You don't say!
@@mickleblade He definitely stretches some things and has some absurdities, but I do think he has some ideas and being a student of history, we need some push on the academia side of things to be pushed with some other narratives. That being said, it's more like take some of his better ideas with a grain of salt.
@@nicknewman1526 well said
It's interesting to note how often people prefer the more fanciful story to the often less glamorous truth. Wasn't aware such a struggle of keeping the truth (or at least the best info we have) relevant.
I often wonder how many times we've discovered the same thing but there was no way to share it and so it went forgotten. We underestimate how important the internet is, for the first time we are as close as we have ever been to being able to share information and store it simultaneously for the future generations will marvel at our sponge bob gifs.
That is the most insecure way of storing data I can imagine outside of receipt paper that clearly has disappearing ink.
I love it when Simon's sarcasm allegedly comes out in his other videos, that you see unfiltered on BB.
But then you only know it's sarcasm and not a chuckle because BB.
If you watch his older videos closely enough, you can definitely allegendly tell when he discovered cocaine. Allegedly.
Hear hear. I came to the comments to make almost that exact same comment, only to find this as top-rated. :)
@@ThursonJames Bonus point to you for using the Whistlerism "Allegendly."
I want to see a BB vid where he's on the piss
I agree that most inexplicable artifacts do have a rational explanation. But I must say that also that sometimes mainstream historians will stretch things a bit to fit their narrative. I have been expecting to see a video claiming that Stonehenge was built in the late 18th century to attract tourists to Wiltshire.
"Can't be identified" is an interesting phrase. "Hasn't been identified" seems much more likely.
I feel like "Science be damned!" Should be your next channel....
Or a shirt lol
Usually is
Jubus christ! Do not give him any ideas. It is hard to keep up with all his channels already.
I agree
You mean Science that has to fit in ONE BOX...burn the box !
A few years ago I visited a gorge in New Hampshire (either Flume or Lost River, can't remember which) and they had on display a stone sphere which was found at the site, about a foot in diameter. Apparently in some river and gorge environments stones get jostled around so much they erode into near perfect spheres. I can well imagine natives finding such objects and taking inspiration.
Imagine for a moment a brawl between cartographers
I’m an excavator and heavy equipment operator, and i do mostly dirty work, and the second i saw that aluminum thing, I said that’s tooth from a bucket! But once you said aluminum i changed my mind because I think that metal would be way too soft to dig with. But I could be VERY wrong. I would love to see the machine that tooth came off of
Aliens really treated the earth like a New Jersey landfill. Goodjob Aliens.
I dont see any giant robots
maybe the skull is of an alien Jimmy Hoffa?
Also, the Brit who created Aluminum, called it "Aluminum", a marketer preferred the sound of Aluminium, he thought it made it sound fancier.
I read that it was the Royal Society wanted to rename it aluminium because it sounded like names for other metals, like cadmium. Either way, the name was changed in the UK but word was never passed on to the Americans, who kept the original name
@@shaygordon9757 Alec Steele, the British CZcams Blacksmith told the whole story in one of his videos.
Definitely sounds more British
@@valiroime not according to the British chemist who invented the process.
Excellent origin fact! And too bad. Seems the original name is a lot easier to say than aluminin... alumim ... dammit, aliminulum... well, youse know.
I really, really appreciate the sarcasm.😂😂
The pronunciation of aluminum gets me every time 😂😂
This shook my world OOPArt.
Let bygones be bygones by Mt. Baigon.
@@tamasmihaly1 too many puns!!!!!!!
All joking aside if we can find a Unique piece of titanium or tungsten carbide that pre dates human abilities by at least a 1k year's then it's got to be 👽. Or humanity existed further back than history or geo logical findings can prove both of which would be eye opening.
NOT ALIEN, just a different type of Human.
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Regarding #3... Teeth on excavators are NOT made of aluminum. They are very hard steel.
The 2nd comment about "hard steel", that reminds me that I will never grow up lmao.
exactly and hows the arrogant tones he imbues this nonsense explanation with
deffo aliens..or aliens showing advanced lost civilisations how to make Alu.
LOL..oh my god...there's some eejits around that'll believe anything as long as they can lever atlantis and/or aliens into it.
I blame facebook.
I bet aliens made that too.
@@TheAdeybob well....have you seen Zuckerberg? He’s not human DUDE! lol 😂
@@pommiebears you're soooooo right
Thanks for the nice video. Most of items are quite well known, but anyway it was interesting...
I like your work fella and you make me laugh 😀👍
Whenever a wierd skull is found someone always jumps to aliens. There are plenty of conspiracies that are more likely (if not still wrong) than aliens. And in the end, it pretty much always is just a deformed human skull.
Plenty of "aliens" born every day. Ordinary birth defects, conjoined twins, you name it.
Only those who haven't met my sister. (ba-ding-bam! Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen... I'll be here all through the weekend ...) But still.
Which is exactly what the Aliens want you to think. I for one, welcome our Alien Overlords.
Have you watched Lloyd Pyes lectures?? theres more alot more evidence then he mentioned
its always the most boring explanation.
As someone that has lived in both Florida and Louisiana, I got a good laugh at 6:15.
It's always easy to point out foreign propaganda - government-controlled news, entertainment, and education. And it's always easy to mock the naivete or gullibility of those who apparently believe the propaganda.
Until it hits home. We're all indoctrinated, regardless which creed or tribe or nation or culture we occupy.
Simon, great videos! Can you do one about the Atacama mummy?
Bravo Bravo Bravo I love your honest view on science and life X
The excavator teeth are never made out of aluminium because it is too soft. What could you excavate with it, the icecream?!
You should really do a google search first before posting. You are not as smart as you think.
I just found some for sale on alibaba. They use non-steel alloy if working around flammables that could be ignited by sparks. You didn't know, but now you do. Go do your own research if you don't believe me.
@@googiegress7459 These are alloys. Aluminium is not an alloy. As I said, aluminium is too soft, that's why in the late 1800s they had to come up with various sorts of alloys: copper and silicon for strength, lead, zinc and cadmium for workability... etc. But my point was something else and obviously misunderstood. Never mind. The wedge is probably some clamshell excavator tooth or something.
@@Karibija Or it could be anything, really. Aircaft part. Doesn't really matter. It's just unreasonable for people who don't know the hydro/geological science of how it might have gotten there, and ignore the extremely skimpy provenance that it is "said to have been found among some mammoth bones", and ignore that wildcat diggers in Russia are currently excavating out mammoth ivory from melting permafrost and riverbanks - to ignore all that and believe instead that an ancient civilization put it there despite not having the deep piles of other advanced artifacts we should be seeing every time we dig anywhere.
For many centuries, it was assumed that there must be a landmass in the southern hemisphere equal in size to the northern. This assumption was based on the idea that the Earth must be symmetrical. Thus, cartographers would include a large landmass where Antarctica is without ever seeing it. Today we know that there is significantly more landmass in the northern hemisphere.
@Roberto Vidal Garcia The northern hemisphere has more land than the southern. They assumed that the land above and below the equator must be close to even.
This is simply not true. Practically every atlas, including Mercator's first, had nothing at the south pole. The argument that people drew landmasses because they thought hemispheres must be balanced is 1) an insult to all the map makers of previous ages, it's basically saying none of them were scientific and just drew whatever they fancied, and 2) is a sad attempt to diminish the few oddities which still exist, such as the Piri Reis and Oronteus Finaeus maps, because they don't fit in a comfortable archaeological paradigm. It's an all too familiar case of this generation dismissing every person who came before us as being less professional, less diligent, less trustworthy, and less capable than we are today; an assumption that's utterly wrong.
@@seanwilson1977 If map makers didn't draw fanciful stuff on their maps then "where be dragons"?
I think it is more likely that they heard tales from sailors that traveled around the horn of Africa that there was land to the south. The sailors might have been blown off course in a storm or something. A map maker added it to his map to get the scoop on competitors, and other maps added it to avoid being left out.
The stone spheres form the basis for my new "Ancient Target stores" theory
When it comes to projectilizing s'mores shrapnel out your nose in a well executed jump-scare at the end of a campfire story... HELL YES, "SCIENCE BE DAMNED!!!"
Nice to see that Simon actually gets to sit down sometimes when doing his 74,000 vids per week. I'll bet it's more relaxation than Danny gets, anyway 😉