What do you think about this?
There is a canyon north of Thompson Springs, Utah, where three different ancient peoples left their art on the same red sandstone wall. The Fremont. The Ute. And, oldest of the three by thousands of years, the Barrier Canyon culture.
The Barrier Canyon figures are what stop you in your tracks.
They tower seven, eight, nine feet tall. They have no arms. No legs. No mouths. Just elongated bodies and large hollow eyes, painted in dark red ochre. Some have what look like antennae rising from their heads. Some are surrounded by smaller figures, animals, geometric shapes, snakes. They were painted between 6,000 and 2,000 BC, which means the oldest of them are roughly twice the age of the Pyramids.
The mainstream archaeological reading is shamanic. Trance state visions, otherworldly beings encountered in altered consciousness, recorded by spiritual practitioners on a wall they considered sacred. There is real ethnographic support for that interpretation across the Colorado Plateau.
But the alternative reading has been pulling in field researchers for decades. The figures do not look human. They do not look like spirits the way other indigenous traditions render them. They look, to a lot of people standing in front of them in person, like beings from somewhere else.
I have stood in front of these panels myself. The feeling is not academic. The feeling is that someone was trying to tell us, in the only language they had, exactly what they saw.
The truth may be far stranger than we have been told.
What do you think about this? In 1715 a hurricane sank eleven Spanish treasure ships off Florida. In 2015 divers pulled up $4.5 million in gold coins from just 15 feet of water. The Queen’s jewels have never been found. Gone forever, or waiting for the right storm?
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 The study was retracted in 2024.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?
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