The UnXplained: TOP 5 SHOCKING MYSTERIES OF 2023 | PART 1

Lovelock Nevada 1911 inside a narrow cave two miners are searching for bat guano a key ingredient in making fertilizer but as they head deeper into the darkness they make an unexpected Discovery they find more than 40 human skeletons some of which are abnormally large in 1911 giant bones were found in Lovelock cave large human skulls and skeletons that measured between seven and 8 ft in height which for ancient man would have been rather significant this caused a sensation and one of the strange things about the discoveries in lelot cave is that the skeletons were often found with red hair and so it does seem like there are a different kind of people than the Native Americans from the area although many of the large bones found in Lovelock cave were unfortunately lost a time for decades a number of skulls were preserved at a local museum until about 10 years ago there were four very large skulls on display inside the museum and these were then removed and ceremonially buried was also so interesting is that over 100,000 artifacts were excavated from Lovelock cave the strange thing is that many of the artifacts were huge like you have giant sized sandals like a 15in long shoe which is size 29 us which would fit someone who's about 9 ft tall and even pieces of clothing which was so big looked as though they were worn by Giants the IDE idea that giant bones were actually found in a cave in Nevada may sound far-fetched to some but the truth is that there were many such discoveries reported during the wild west even in the southwestern United States there's uh several very strange stories of these um dead corpses or skeletons being found regularly in terms of the reports of giants this is a compelling Motif people were fascinated by idea of a giant race that had lived here previously and this connects to a lot of biblical belief that tended to be fairly literal back in the day and the Bible talks about back when there was a race of giants that lived on the earth and so for many people in the wild west when you see um some skeletons dug out of the earth that seem to corroborate this this was a an affirmation of literal biblical beliefs as well is it really possible that a race of GI sence once inhabited the old west as the numerous discoveries reported throughout the 1800s suggest and if so was evidence of these Giants recovered in love loock cave perhaps a clue can be found by examining the history of the indigenous pyute people who have inhabited the Nevada desert for centuries a woman named Sarah wamaka who was a descendant of Chief wamaka the puds wrote a book in the 1800s and recounted her people's battle with this race of giants the ca now what's fascinating about this is that she says that it was an actual battle not part of tribal lore or mythology but something that actually occurred the ctia were redhaired and lived in the mountains near the p nation and they were cannibals according to the PES they naturally grew tired of being cannibalized and they confronted these Giants a war was started between the Giants and the pyute people for 3 years they battled one another the last of the Giants holded themselves up in the Lovelock cave and the pyute people stuffed the openings with a bunch of brush and firewood and lit the place on fire and that was the end of the red-haired giant cannibals what's also interesting is that when the discovery was made in 1911 at Lovelock cave they also found evidence of extreme burning which took place near the entrance to the cave so this matches the story almost precisely and again we have evidence of red hair because Sarah winam Maka Hopkins actually saved some of the hair and sewed it into a morning dress which she used when she gave lectures and so the story of the PES defeating the Giants then suddenly became a reality for many the evidence in support of the pyute story about the redheaded Giants is compelling not only because of what was found in Lovelock cave but also because there have been reports of giant bones being discovered in other places throughout the Western Nevada desert if you go back and look through the records you can find numerous accounts of Bones skeletons and giant sized artifacts that have been found in this area in 1904 it was reported that an 11t tall skeleton was found and then we have accounts in 1931 of an 8 and 1/2t skeleton that was reported and so the fact is you have the stories you have the skeletal evidence and you have the artifacts and even the legends that proved this was a real story of giants in this area to be sure the PES believe this to be a historical truth people might dismiss him as just folklore but again who's to say that it didn't happen of course there were ethnic conflicts of course there were Wars and of course people tend to remember this so this has been a real important part of many many people's historical beliefs and how they think about their own history Mecca it is home to one of the world's largest religious structures the Grand Mosque in the center Courtyard of this immense edifice stands a 43t tall Granite Cube known as the Caba the house of God five times a day every day almost 2 billion Muslims across the world world turn and prey towards this striking black Monument the holiest and most sacred site in all of Islam why because embedded in the Eastern corner of the shrine is perhaps the most sacred stone in all the world the black stone of Mecca for the world's 1.8 billion Muslims this stone is crucial when Muslims face in the direction of Mecca they face in the direction of that stone this object as simple as it might be is of incredible significance to the Muslim faith because it is said to have fallen from Heaven at the commands of Allah at the time of Adam and Eve and it was said to have marked the position of the first temple which obviously becomes Mecca itself then the story is that that stone gets lost during the flood because Muslims have the same flood story that Jews do from the Hebrew Bible then that stone for Muslims is rediscovered by Abraham so Abraham with his son Ishmael build in Mecca the first place of prayer that's why Mecca is important to Muslims because this is the first place of prayer to the one God over time it gets worn away the building gets rebuilt in 605 the prophet Muhammad himself is the one that places that stone in its place that's part of what gives it power each year millions of Muslims make a pilgrimage or Hajj to the Caba once there visitors take part in a series of rituals called tawa which includes circling the cabba seven times in the belief that it will bring about true humility by linking them with God the black stone is therefore one of the focal points of the harj ceremony that every Muslim certainly tries to achieve during their lifetime and they will then enter the Central Court of meca and if possible try to kiss the black stone in emulation of Muhammad who was said to have set it up in this position in the year 605 ad certainly the stories that have been built around it really pull people in and some people suggested that maybe it's something in the stone itself that pulls people in the stone itself pulling people in but how for the millions if not billions of Muslims who have made their pilgrimage to the cabba there's no doubt that the black stone has an inexorable power that seems to draw them into its orbit and according to some experts that's because the black stone is not of this world Muslims believe that this was sent down by God to Earth if we're scientific we may call that a meteorite if we're not scientific we may call that miraculous you know here's this stone that comes from the heavens when a meteorite hits the Earth and somebody witnessed to fall and and they were to go to that location there's a variety of things that they might be able to find if the Stone Falls in a Sandy area for example there might be a lot of heat associated with the meteorite as it falls and that could cause Fusion of the sand to cause some kind of of glass to form and so when you walk up onto it you might find some interesting new features that you probably wouldn't have seen in that particular part of the of the world before meteorites arrive from outer space being exposed to cosmic rays they're slightly radioactive to people not exposed to electromagnetic radiation they would might have been able to even feel that buzz from this rock from the radiation beta particle especially you know whether you believe it was sent by God or whether you believe it was a random act it has literally extraterrestrial Origins and so that creates a real power there could the Blackstone of Mecca really have the power to physically affect people who come near it now the truth is we may never know for sure because no one has ever been officially allowed to inspect or analyze it so there are a lot of exciting and interesting questions about the Blackstone I think the first initial one is is it actually a meteorite a lot of people proposed that and there's some evidence particularly from a local impact Trader that it came from there and is there some sort of radiation energy that it emits or is coming from it that we just don't understand yet so it would be really amazing to have the opportunity to analyze the Blackstone there are obviously challenges both sort of social as well as scientific it's in the Muslim world it's in a very sacred place it's a very sacred stone so bringing in scientists and doing careful analyses have those Social Challenges and would be difficult Tombstone Arizona the spirit of the Wild West is Alive and Well in this small town where a saloon doors still swing open and horses pull stage coaches along Main Street founded in the late 1800 Tombstone Embraces its history when Outlaws Gunslingers and violent shootouts were all too common Tombstone was a silver Bloom town but what makes Tombstone so legendary was well mostly the gunfight of the okay Coral that was between the herbs the Clans and mlars and B Clayborn also Doc Holiday was involved in that gunfight now that gunfight was actually in the alleyway leading into the ok CR out all Freemont [Music] Street no one knows who fired the first shot it was a 30C gunfight 38 shots were fired and three men lay dead on the street there's so much history around here when you walk those streets in Tombstone you're walking in the steps of History the gunfire at the OK Corral is the most well-known tale from this wild west Boom Town but Tombstone past is also riddled with bizarre Supernatural stories including Tales of strange creatures roaming the frontier that spread like wildfire in the 19th century there are a lot of Legends that have come out of Tombstone but there's one very curious one in 1890 the tombstone epit reported a story about two ranchers who saw a giant flying creature in the sky above them Tombstone epith reported that they encountered a prehistoric looking monster flying and I said the whole body was about 100 ft long and the head was about 8 ft long loaded with razor sharp teeth they not only were afraid of it but apparently they tracked it down and killed this creature and tried to take a photograph of it sprawled out according to local lore a photo of the strange creature was indeed taken and even published in the tombstone Epitaph but locating the supposed picture has proven to be difficult in terms of the photograph there are Legions of people who remember seeing this picture even into the 1930s and 40s yet no one has ever been able to locate it and in fact the addition of the epith that the story ran in didn't have any photographs at all although the alleged newspaper photo has never been found over the years a number of bizarre pictures featuring Cowboys and a massive winged creature have surfaced and can be seen on the internet one photograph depicts a group of men with a giant wied Beast the creature is winged but it's not really a bird it looks more like a pterodactyl something prehistoric with large leathery wings and a large head with two feet hanging down below it adds to the mystery of the creature and makes us wonder what exactly is flying around in the southern deserts while the images of the wing creature are compelling historians have question their authenticity and claim that they may have been fabricated as a result of the fascination people have with this strange tale from the old west although most variations of the photo seem to be hoaxes I think it's weird when you combine all of the things of the newspaper encounter people swearing that they personally saw the photograph and now it's gone it only adds more history and wonder to the story and I think in some regard it makes it even bigger than it would have been is the story of the tombstone pterodactyl just a tall tale or is it possible that there really was a species of giant flying creatures that roam the deserts of the old west perhaps the answer can be found by examining accounts from Native American folklore of a creature known as the Thunderbird the Thunderbird is one of the most widespread powerful creatures and symbols in Native American mythology it is a gigantic bird some kind of raptor sometimes with somewhat human qualities but it's connected with thunder and with lightning very often those flapping its wings is what creates thunder and it shoots lightning out of its eyes the Thunderbird is common in in Native American tribes all over the West you'll find them on petroglyphs on the rocks or you'll find them in totem pose it's a special bird a special spiritual power of protection and support and strength that's what the Thunderbird represents by some accounts Thunderbirds were strictly Spiritual Beings they lived in another world and they were frightening but could also sometimes lend their power to the people on other occasions they were purportedly real creatures that could swoop down at any time and snatch up humans if they so choose is it possible that there is a connection between the Thunderbird and the winged creature that was reportedly seen near Tombstone Arizona in 1890 for now the answer is unclear but people remain fascinated by the idea that massive winged Birds really did soar over the American frontier it's important to remember that this is taking place in the wild west is taking place when people are looking out for Marvels and becoming aware of Native American explanations Native American mythology at the same time so people were aware that the Thunderbird was held to be out there which leads us back to the question you know the Thunderbird is it encrypted like it's out there somewhere is it is it simply a deity that's sort of cobbled together from abstract Notions of what the Divine is or is it sort of resulting from people finding you know pterodactyl skeletons and saying wow there must have been a great big bird here at some point uh or maybe all three so this is still a great mystery Sardinia 1974 on This Island located off the coast of Italy a farmer in a region known as Monte PR is tilling his Fields when he strikes what appears to be a large Rock but upon closer inspection he realizes that his plow has revealed something far more amazing it's the head of a massive ancient statue the farmer started digging around it brushing away the mud pulled it out and there was this giant Stone head gazing back at him with these obsidian eyes and so this became quite a sensation at the time time it was one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the decade subsequently archaeologists entered the area and through the late 70s they dug and they found over 5,000 fragments of these giant statues we have archers we have Warriors we have boxers they are generally speaking about 8 ft tall and approach a ton in weight and they are unique in the regard that for their time there was no other statuary that was in human form and size and that level of detail and sophistication the monolithic statues came to be known as the Giants of Monta pra according to archaeologists they were carved by the neurologic people a mysterious civilization that lived on Sardinia nearly 4,000 years ago the nuragic people were the indigenous population of Sardinia beginning around 1750 BCE and they were not the kind of society that would have writing so we don't know a lot beyond their everyday lifestyle which would be in many ways similar to what was going on throughout the Mediterranean in at the same time incredibly some researchers claim that the reason why the neurologic people carved statues that were 8 ft tall is because these monoliths were created in the image of an actual race of giants one of the strange things about these statues is that they appear to be buried underneath these kind of slabs of stone in this elongated grave as though they were almost like ancestors being buried in the ground why they did this we don't know but there are many Legends of Giants all over Sardinia and the stories go on and on and on so this could be the same Giants who are memorialized in these particular statues could the monoliths of mon PR really be evidence that a civilization of giants once inhabited the island of Sardinia some believe many researchers think that is possible and claim that there are additional clues in folklore throughout the Mediterranean diodorus an ancient Greek historian discussed how there was an ancient bloodline of the Athenian civilization known as the 50 sons of Hercules that mated with a mortal race of women to create a giant bloodline that built these monolithic statues on the island of Sardinia this story really put the idea into different philosophers heads that this was actually a very Advanced culture that kind of led up to the time of the nuragic people and culminated in the era of the Monti Prima Giants the massive monel of mon pra and stories from folklore aren't the only pieces of evidence to suggest that Giants once lived on Sardinia because there are also mysterious tombs located throughout the island that may have been where their oversized bodies were buried what we see at Monte PR are totally separate structures for where they buried their deceased and these are called the Giants tombs Tad de jigante they are typically made of one very large stone that have a semi hemispherical entry area or front that curves inward with the center part having a small hole down at the bottom which is where the skeleton would have been interred as you see these Giants tombs what you realize is it's entirely made of large blocks with a small opening in the base in Tradition these were the burial places designed for Giants they would actually build the tomb around it this is one of the clues that kind of links with the legends that Giants did exist in Sardinia but there is further evidence that actual skeletons have been found in some of these Giants Graves we have accounts from 1901 where there's a report of four 9-t skeletons being Unearthed in the vicinity in Northern Sardinia and even relatively recently there are reports of three skeletons being dug up in an area called teralba in Southwest Sardinia however the problem is is that most of the evidence has now disappeared they've just gone missing basically and so you have to question why is this is there a cover up is it possible that the bones of Giants have actually been hidden from the public it's an intriguing Theory and it deepens the mystery surrounding the strange Tower powering statues uncovered at Monte prama the Giants of Monte prama are very unique and enigmatic and sardinia's myths and stories about who these people were typically talk about Giants but there's a lot of things we don't know about who these people were and so these giant statues are the mystery within that mystery sand Juan County Utah November 18th 2020 in the remote Sandstone Canyons of the Utah desert a team of biologists tracking sheep make a shocking Discovery they come upon a gleaming 12T tall metal monolith it's just a completely unearthly image it's this big triangular prism about 12 ft tall firmly embedded in the desert ground in this incredibly remote place where there are no roads the heck is that that is just wild it's very difficult to get anything out there let alone a 12 ft tall slab of metal but what's very weird about it is using Google Earth satellite imagery they eventually figure out that it has been there for four to 5 years without being discovered the sighting of this odd metal monolith looking like some kind of Otherworldly portal was a shotard around the world in some regards it was not a monolith because lith means Stone and this is a metal thing but still it attracted everyone's eyes I think part of it was the the mystery how did it get there numerous theories were put forth as to who might have created the so-called Utah monolith and then during the following months the mystery took another twist as similar monoliths started popping up all over the world other people became inspired by this monolith in the Utah desert and started copycatting from that and so another monolith appears in IND theia shortly after that one shows up in it you get one showing up in Pittsburgh right outside of a candy shop there's one that shows up in San Francisco that is made out of gingerbread in the end between November of 2020 and may of 2021 over 200 monoliths around the world just appear I guess this is the thing now right so be prepared to see these everywhere well some wrote off the worldwide monolith phenomenon as a cultural fad historians were quick to disagree and claim that something more profound was occurring that dates back to the dawn of History because curiously about 6,000 years ago upright Stones known as mener that bear a striking resemblance to the Utah monolith were inex explicably erected all over Europe when we look at this menh here phenomena there's a time right around 4,000 BCE where these sites pop up all over the place at least in Europe the most well-known are the ones that are in the UK and in France in Portugal and Spain but it's actually a much larger and more expansive tradition they started creating these everywhere in Germany we have the Wen Stone and then 400 miles away one of the oldest Stones is the men here of granson overall in Europe there are over 35,000 standing menir still today in almost every country the number of ancient menir located throughout Europe is staggering and many historians have wondered why were so many monoliths created during the same time period travel and trade had been standard for thousands of years people are observant and they like to remember and replicate and interpret and represent so if somebody's traveled to say won in East Yorkshire and then they go back to Germany and they they say I saw these amazing Stones let's have a go at making them it's not impossible that people may have just observed this and then imitated it is it possible that the phenomenon surrounding the utor monolith was actually history repeating itself and that humans have actually been imitating each other by building monoliths for thousands of years it's interesting that people don't want to take credit in modern times for creating these monuments and that may give us some insight into the mentality of the people that built ancient monoliths they didn't carve their names in there and it perhaps was not about them either it was about the human compunction to make a piece of immortality

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Published: Sun Dec 10 2023