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Just off the coast of Southern California sits Santa Catalina Island. In 1919, a man named Ralph Glidden began digging there, and over the years that followed he claimed to have unearthed the remains of thousands of people from ancient burial sites across the island. That part is documented. The part that started the legend was his other claim. Among the bones, Glidden said, were skeletons of an unusual size. People who stood far taller than the Native peoples known to have lived there, some he described as approaching seven feet and beyond.
He took photographs. He built a strange little museum around the collection. And then mainstream archaeology pushed back hard. Scientists who later examined surviving records found no solid proof of any race of giants, and much of Glidden’s work was dismissed as showmanship.
Yet the photographs exist. The Channel Islands hold some of the oldest human remains ever found in North America, dating back roughly thirteen thousand years. And stories of unusually tall ancient people turn up in accounts up and down the California coast.
Could it be that something real sits buried under the layers of exaggeration?
A carnival hoax built for ticket sales, or a genuine anomaly the textbooks chose to bury? What do you think Glidden actually dug up on that island?
What do you think about this? Today is the equinox, and at Chichén Itzá a serpent of light will crawl down a pyramid built with 365 steps. Clap at its base and the echo chirps like the sacred quetzal bird. Brilliant engineering, or knowledge from somewhere older?
What do you think about this? Scans of Gunung Padang in Indonesia show hidden chambers deep inside the hill, and one team dated its oldest layers to 25,000 years ago. The study was retracted in 2024. The chambers have never been opened. Natural hill, or the oldest pyramid on Earth?
What do you think about this? Edgar Cayce gave over 14,000 trance readings, all written down and still on file. He said proof of Atlantis would rise near Bimini in 1968. That year divers found a half mile road of giant stone blocks there. True seer, or lucky guess?
What do you think about this? Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky built a 500 foot tunnel just to move its dead out of sight of the living. It closed in 1961. Visitors still report a boy rolling a ball across empty floors. Restless spirits, or a dark building playing tricks on the mind?
What do you think about this? In 1891, a poor French priest named Bérenger Saunière began tearing up his church floor, then spent the next two decades funding lavish buildings on a stipend that should not have covered it. Real treasure, or a secret about how he ran his church?
What do you think about this? Puma Punku’s H-shaped stone blocks, cut from andesite by a culture dating to roughly 600 CE, are flat to within a couple millimeters, with no known metal tools hard enough to do it. Lost technique, or something we haven’t caught up to yet?
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