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Legend of the 13 Crystal Skulls _ From Mars to the Maya · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: Frank Dorlyn watched quietly from the corner of the lab
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  at Hewlett Packer's Research Department HB. Scientists had tested thousands
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  of crystals their courts. Technology powered the modern world, but
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  they'd never seen anything like this. This was the famous
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  Mitchell Hedges crystal skull. It was over ten thousand years old,
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  yet the quartz was as clear as glass. They lowered
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  the skull into a bath of benzyl alcohol and turned
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  on the polarized light to examine its structure. The test
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  results didn't make sense. The skull defied everything the scientists
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  knew about physics, geology, engineering, and optics. The level of
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  technology required to create the crystal skull didn't exist thousands
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  of years ago, and it doesn't exist now, at least
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  not on Earth.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you better not generate images of Gerdi dressed as
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  Prince's lead.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I would never do that. Which are we talking
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  about the space buns or endo a pancho or.
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  Speaker 3: Cat tween bikini?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm hat sticky sweet.
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  Speaker 1: For over twenty years, the CIA ran Project Stargate, a
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  program focused on remote viewing. When the Stargate files were declassified,
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  the targets of interest weren't surprising. The CIA had remote
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  viewers looking at facilities in the Soviet Union, China, and
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  the Middle East. But one target stood out from the rest, Mars.
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  But the CIA wasn't interested in present day Mars. They
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  were interested in ancient Mars.
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  Speaker 6: Using the information in the envelope, these focus on forty
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  point eight nine degrees north nine point five to five
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  degrees west.
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  Speaker 7: I want to say, it looks like I don't know's
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  It sort of looks like like pyramids. I just keep
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  seeing very large people. They appear thin and tall, but
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  they're very large, wearing some kind of strange clothes.
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  Speaker 1: So in nineteen eighty four they sent one of their
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  most talented psychics, Joe mcmonagall, to ancient Mars. He saw tall,
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  slender beings with advanced technology. We did a couple of
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  episodes about this, where you can read and hear in
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  Joe's own words exactly what he saw on Mars.
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  Speaker 2: Links down here you see peck on the.
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  Speaker 1: Surface of Mars, where tower is made of pure crystal
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  that could store and transmit information across vast distances. These
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  are not just buildings, they were giant computers. The Martian
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  civilization was technologically advanced, but their atmosphere was being stripped away,
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  and they couldn't stop it. The Martians knew they were
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  facing extinction, so they preserved their knowledge in thirteen crystal skulls.
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  Each skull contained the complete history of a different world
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  where intelligent life existed. Twelve skulls represented those twelve planets.
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  The thirteenth skull connected them.
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  Speaker 2: All Lens skulti rulable, Lens skelet faynin.
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  Speaker 3: So the thirteen skelt.
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  Speaker 2: Bring nibble and in the darkness bagnim you done. I'm sorry,
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  but it was kind of a layup that keep going.
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  Speaker 1: Pascius anyway, The thirteenth skull contained the combined knowledge of
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  every civilization in our galaxy. They gave the skulls containing
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  this knowledge to the Atlanteans, whose technology was almost advanced
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  as their own. In Atlantis, priest built temples for each
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  skull and kept them closely guarded. They understood the skull's
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  power and knew that in the wrong hands, this knowledge
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  could destroy worlds. For thousands of years, the crystal skulls
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  were safely kept in Atlantis, but then Lantis faced its
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  own extinction.
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  Speaker 3: Event a great blood before the.
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  Speaker 1: Continent sank beneath the waves, Atlantean priests transported the skulls
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  to different locations around the world.
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  Speaker 3: They entrusted the.
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  Speaker 1: Most powerful skull, the thirteenth skull, to the Maya. According
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  to Mya legend, this skull was different. It could communicate
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  telepathically and respond to any question. The skull knew mankind's
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  true origin and purpose in the universe, and knew the
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  truth behind every mystery, including the Pyramids, Stonehenge, and even Atlantis.
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  All you had to do was ask. The legend says
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  that when all thirteen skulls are brought together, the power
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  of the gods will be unleashed and the fate of
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  the entire human race will be revealed. But the skulls
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  won't be found until mankind is worthy. So for twelve
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  thousand years, the skulls remained hidden, waiting for the day
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  when the human race could be trusted with such great
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  power that in January nineteen twenty four, that day arrived.
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  Speaker 3: The jungle of British.
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  Speaker 1: Honduras held ancient secrets, and it was determined to keep them.
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  Fertilance vipers and coral snakes hid into cane leaves. You
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  had to watch your step. Their venom could kill you
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  within hours. But you also had to watch the trees.
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  Jaguars attacked from above. Their jaws could crush a human skull.
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  Few explorers made it this far into my territory. But
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  Frederick Mitchell Hedges wasn't an explorer. He was an adventurer.
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  Mitchell Hedges believed great discoveries weren't made in a library.
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  They were made in the field, in the dirt. He
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  titled his autobiography danger My Ally, and here in the jungle,
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  danger was everywhere. Mosquitoes carrying malaria filled the air. Spiders,
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  scorpions and fire ants covered the vines. Parasites were in
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  the water. Flesh eating botflies were in the mud. None
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  of this frightened fa Mitchell Hedges. He was a spy
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  and a soldier. He was captured by and escaped dangerous tribes.
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  He fought deadly animals with his bare hands. He explored
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  ancient ruins and discovered buried treasure. The stories of his
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  adventures made him a bit of a celebrity back in England.
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  Speaker 2: This guy sounds like a real life Indiana Jones.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he kind of was.
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  Speaker 1: Much of the story from the fourth Indiana Jones movie,
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  Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, was based on this legend
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  of the thirteen skulls.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me, there was no fourth Indiana Jones movie.
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  Speaker 1: Two thousand and eight with Cape Blanchett and Shilah buff
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  doesn't ring a bell really.
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  Speaker 2: Because you were only three Indiana Jones movies, and I'll
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  hear nothing more about it.
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  Speaker 3: Fine.
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell Hedges had been to Central America many times, but
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  this expedition in January nineteen twenty four was unique. Mitchell
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  Hedges was obsessed with lost cities and ancient civilizations, especially
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  the Maya. Their sophisticated knowledge of math and astronomy seemed
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  to appear suddenly in their historical record. He speculated that
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  an advanced culture helped the Maya, or rather the survivors
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  of an advanced culture, the survivors of Atlantis. Local workers
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  in British Honduras now believee told Mitchell Hedges stories about
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  star people. These beings appeared suddenly, shared knowledge with the Maya,
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  and then vanished. Some descendants of the Maya believed those
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  beings were from Atlantis.
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  Speaker 3: Mitchell Hedges believed it.
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  Speaker 1: Two Now local guides were leading him from the jungle
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  to find a lost city that could finally prove his theory.
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  Speaker 3: It was slow going through the jungle.
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  Speaker 1: When Mitchell Hedges thought he saw a break in the
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  canopy above, barely noticeable, he signaled for everyone to stop.
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  He crouched and started digging in the dirt. About six
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  inches down, he thought felt something. He called for help.
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  It took only a few minutes to clear the soil,
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  and then they saw it, a gleaming white stone. The
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  legend was true. At A Mitchell he had found an
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  ancient lost city. He had no idea he was about
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  to discover something much much older.
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  Speaker 3: Atha.
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell Hedges and his team spent days clearing the site.
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  The ancient Maya city wasn't like anything he'd ever seen before.
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  Its stones were perfectly cut and fitted together without mortar.
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  This wasn't typical Maya construction. The walls reminded him of
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  ancient sites in Egypt, halfway across the world. There were homes, markets, temples,
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  and amphitheater, and at the center of it all a
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  great pyramid. These were the ruins of La Mantoun, which
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  translates to place of the fallen stones. And he can't
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  help but wonder where did the stones fall from? Mitchell
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  Hedges documented everything in his field journal, the position of
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  each stone, the alignments of the buildings. He was looking
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  for proof that an advance civilization once spanned the globe.
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  After clearing some debris from the top of the pyramid,
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  a small opening was revealed forty feet below. They saw
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  a glint, a flash of light, like something glowing in
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  the darkness. Mitchell Hedges measured the opening. It was much
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  too small for him to fit through. He needed one
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  of the younger thinner men.
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  Speaker 3: They all refused.
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  Speaker 1: They said this was a temple and it was cursed
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  and they shouldn't disturb whatever's inside. Mitchell Hedges was not deterred.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't bleeding magic a lot of superstitious hocus focus.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't, but his local guides did. He looked at
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  their faces. All the excitement turned to fear. He asked,
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  does nobody have the courage to make the greatest discovery
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  in history? There was only silence. Then from the back
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  of the group, a soft voice said, I'll do it.
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  Mitchell Hedge's seventeen year old daughter stepped forward, had been
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  her father's traveling companion since she was ten years old.
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  She was just as fearless as he was, and maybe
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  just as reckless Anna crouched over the opening and scanned
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  the cavern below. A few seconds later, she turned around
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  and said, fetch me the rope. It was her seventeenth
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  birthday in nineteen twenty four, and a climbed to the
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  top of the pyramid with two ropes wrapped around her body.
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  Workers carefully lowered her into the void. When she reached
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  the floor of the temple, she approached the altar, she
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  fell to her knees and began digging with her bare hands.
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  A few minutes later, she tugged twice on the rope,
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  the signal to come back up.
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  Speaker 5: For days, we kept seeing something shining through the stones
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  where the sun was giving, and of course we were
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  anxious to get to that one spot. I went to
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  pick it up because I had smaller hands than the
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  other people did, and I picked it up and showed
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  it to my father, and he just couldn't believe that
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  we found this beautiful crystal skull.
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  Speaker 2: Now what, she didn't have to put a vegasany you know,
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  to avoid the booby trips.
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  Speaker 3: There were no booby traps.
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  Speaker 2: What are skeleton snakes?
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  Speaker 3: No skeletons or snakes? Y?
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  Speaker 2: Somebody should tell the old lady a story has a
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  second act problem.
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  Speaker 3: Do you want to know what she found or not? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, keep going. But if nobody's face melts off at
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  the end, I'm going to be disappointed.
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  Speaker 1: When Anna finally emerged from the pyramid, she had something
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  wrapped in her shirt. She handed it to her father,
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  a human skull carved from a single piece of pure
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  quartz crystal.
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  Speaker 3: It was flawless.
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell Hedges held the skull high in the air. There
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  was a moment of silence. The Maya workers were stunned.
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  Then they erupted with joy. A Maya elder told them
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  that the skull was ancient, thousands of years old. According
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  to legend, the high priest could will someone to death
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  by using the skull. From then on, Mitchell Hedges called
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  it the Skull of Doom. Mitchell Hedges returned to London
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  and packed the skull away. He wouldn't show it to
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  anyone for almost thirty years. He only wrote about it
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  one more time before he died in nineteen fifty nine.
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  When Ana inherited the skull, she took it out of storage.
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  Then she learned why her father never mentioned it. The
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  crystal skull started talking. Frank Doorlyn was an art restorer
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  and a crystal expert. Anna Mitchell Hedges contacted him in
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  nineteen sixty three and asked him to analyze the skull.
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  Of course he said yes. As soon as Frank received it,
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  he noticed something strange. The skull would sing.
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  Speaker 4: Soon, peculiar things started to occur whenever the skull was
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  out of the vault. We noticed that when we were quiet,
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  we could hear soft voices and music. There was this
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  inanimate object sitting on our research desk singing to us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did it take requests?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: I get one for the studio. If that head gets
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  sing like Sinatra.
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  Speaker 1: No, it didn't sing like Sinatra. It was more like
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  whispers and humming. Then there was the smell.
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  Speaker 2: It smelled like Sinatra.
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  Speaker 3: No, it was the sweet smell of apple blossoms.
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  Speaker 1: Sinatra smelled like apple blossoms. Will you stop with Sinatra
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  and let me get through this?
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  Speaker 2: Sorry? Sorry, just try to understand what happened? Sheesh, wit
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  a grouch.
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  Speaker 1: What happened was Frank Dorlyn studied the skull for six years.
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  At night, he and his wife heard whispers and singing.
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  The skull had other properties too. The skull channeled light
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  through its eyes, making them glow. Different people experience different effects.
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  Some people got thirsty, others smelled vinegar or apple blossoms
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  like sinatra. Some people, when looking through the skull's left eye,
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  saw visions of ancient temples and ruins played like scenes
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  from a movie. One night, he heard movement downstairs. He
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  heard bells, chimes, and whispers. The next morning, objects were
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  scattered everywhere, and there was the skull capturing the sunrise,
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  staring at him with bright orange eyes. Frank needed help
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  understanding this artifact. He contacted Hewlett Packard's crystal Lab. Their
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  scientists agreed to test the skull, and every test led
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  to the same conclusion. This object should not exist. Frank Doorland,
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  his wife, and many other witnesses had strange experiences with
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  the skull, visions, sounds, and smells. But Frank didn't think
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  the skull was magical. He thought it was a machine.
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  He believed the crystal interacted with thought and consciousness through
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  what he called crystalligraphy. To prove his theory, he took
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  the skull to the crystal lab at Hewlett Packard. Nobody
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  on Earth had better equipment or more expertise in crystal analysis.
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  Speaker 2: They had top men working on it.
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  Speaker 3: They did tat me.
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  Speaker 1: I got it. Tests proved the skull and its detachable
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  jaw came from a single crystal. Now that's hard to do.
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  The quartz was cut against its natural axis. Well, that's
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  almost impossible to do. The more they studied, the more
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  the scientists had trouble understanding the skull. When viewed under
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  a microscope, there were no tool marks. The skull surface
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  was perfectly smooth. The only explanation was that the skull
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  had been polished with water and sand every day for
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  over one hundred years. Uh or it was made with
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  technology we don't understand mush in technology. Well, the skulls
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  engineering suggested that the cranium contained ribbon prisms and light tunnels.
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  The eye sockets were lenses. This wasn't an accident. This
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  was engineered.
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  Speaker 3: The only way to achieve.
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  Speaker 1: This effect with a solid piece of crystal is by
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  altering its molecules.
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  Speaker 2: We can't do this, Yeah, but Margine's good.
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  Speaker 1: Well that brings us back to the legend of the
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  thirteen crystal skulls. When the scientists at HP publicized their tests,
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  people started wondering if the legend was true and mankind
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  was now worthy, then there would be more crystal skulls
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  out there. So researchers started calling museums to see if
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  they had any ancient crystal skulls in their collections.
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  Speaker 3: They found more x.
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  Speaker 1: A mysterious package arrived at the Smithsonian in nineteen ninety
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  two no return address, inside a crystal skull weighing thirty
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  one pounds. Doctor Jane Walsh had seen this before. The skull,
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  now called the Paris Skull started her investigation into crystal skulls.
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  Her research led to two skulls discovered before Mitchell Hedges
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  made his find in eighteen seventy eight and as tech
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  crystal skull appeared at the Mouseae de Lame in Paris.
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  Another showed up by the British Museum in eighteen ninety seven.
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  Both skulls shared a connection. Eugene Boban remember that name.
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  Baban was a French archaeologist turned antiquities dealer. Napoleon sent
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  him to Mexico in eighteen fifty seven to collect artifacts
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  for France.
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  Speaker 3: He collected a few for himself too.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody with state beak.
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  Speaker 3: Van opened a shop in France.
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  Speaker 1: In eighteen sixty nine, he sold a crystal skull to
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  a French explorer, the first publicly displayed skull. Ten years
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  later he sold another to Tiffany's, which became the London Skull.
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  When Walsh and British scientist Margaret Sachs examined these skulls
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  with modern equipment, the legend of the thirteen Crystal Skulls
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  took ahead. Yes, under electron microscopes, they found marks from grinding.
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  Speaker 2: Wheels machin grinding wheels noo.
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  Speaker 1: The Marx match stones cut at edar Owenstein in the
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  late nineteenth century. The German village was famous for its
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  gem cutters. Tests showed the crystals weren't from Central America
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  David from US no Alas, no Brazil or Madagascar correct.
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  Around this time, dar Oberstein received a large shipment of
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  Brazilian quartz. Both Boban's skulls were made in Germany between
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  eighteen seventy and eighteen ninety. The mysterious Smithsonian skull had
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  identical grinding patterns. Later tests using hydration dating placed the skulls.
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  Speaker 2: In eighteen seventy to eighteen ninety YEP Sometimes I hate science.
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  Speaker 1: Three supposedly ancient skulls exposed as forgeries, modern reproductions sold
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  by Eugen Boban as authentic Mexican artifacts. The world was stunned.
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  The ancient legend of the crystal skulls was unraveling. Skeptics
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  wanted answers, believers wanted proof. So all eyes turned to
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  the most famous crystal skull of all. It was time
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  to test the skull of doom. When the truth about
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  the crystal skulls hit the media, everyone wanted Ada Mitchell
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  Hedges to allow her crystal skull to undergo the same
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  tests as the others and are refused. She protected her
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  legacy until she died in two thousand and seven. When
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  Anna passed away, her husband Bill Holman inherited the skull,
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  the life skull, the crystal skull.
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  Speaker 2: All right, it's much less creepy.
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  Speaker 1: In two thousand and eight, Homan confidently walked into the
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  Smithsonian to face doctor Jane Walsh and her team of researchers.
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  It didn't take much time to prove that the Mitchell
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  Hedges crystal was man made. The same tool marks as
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  the skulls were there. Anda's father at a Mitchell Hedges
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  really was an adventurer and writer, but his adventures were
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  widely exaggerated or outright fiction, and Anna seemed to take
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  after the old man. Her story is a complete fabrication.
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  She said she found the skull in Lubantun and believes
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  in nineteen twenty four, but she was never there. She
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  said she found the skull in nineteen twenty four or
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  nineteen twenty five, or twenty six, or nineteen twenty seven
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  or nineteen twenty eight, but it was always her seventeenth birthday.
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  She admitted she was a little hazy on the date,
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  but you'd think she'd know the day and the year
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  that she was born.
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  Speaker 2: You lie about the year you were boy?
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  Speaker 3: No, so do you touche?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of Levontun, her father didn't discover it. It was
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  found by doctor Thomas Ghann in nineteen oh three. Mitchell
• 22:24
  Hedges got the skull in nineteen forty three, and we
• 22:27
  have documentation of this. He bought it from Southey's auction house.
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  That's why the skull isn't mentioned in the nineteen twenties
• 22:34
  or nineteen thirties by Anna or her father made never
• 22:37
  heard of it. The seller was Sidney Bernie of London.
• 22:40
  When Anna was confronted with this, she said Bernie was
• 22:42
  holding onto the skull as collateral because her father owed
• 22:46
  him money. Then he bought it back. But that's not
• 22:49
  what Bernie says. He says he got it from a
• 22:51
  collection once owned by Eugene Boban dah Fa. Mitchell Hedges
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  seemed to have borrowed his story from a novel written
• 22:59
  by Jack McLaren in nineteen thirty.
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  Speaker 3: Six called The Crystal Skull.
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  Speaker 1: It's about a scientist who finds a crystal skull that
• 23:06
  can show the future. As for Frank Dorland, he made
• 23:09
  up all the supernatural stuff about the skull, which actually
• 23:12
  annoyed Anna and they had a falling out. I think well,
• 23:16
  she gave Frank the skull for an appraisal. She wanted
• 23:19
  to sell it. His stories about magic voices and poltergeist
• 23:22
  were making buyers uncomfortable, so Dorland offered her a compromise.
• 23:27
  They should work together and write a book.
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  Speaker 2: He's always a book.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: The book never happened.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Now, Hewlett Packard did test the skull, but they refused
• 23:36
  to test anything supernatural related. All they did was confirm
• 23:39
  it was a single piece of quartz. So the Maya
• 23:43
  legend of the thirteen crystal skulls is firmly debunked. Neither
• 23:47
  the Maya nor the Aztecs had any such legend. They
• 23:50
  both worked with quartz, but not to make skulls. Both
• 23:53
  cultures like skulls, but I don't want to get into
• 23:56
  that here. The truth is that the crystal skull myth
• 23:59
  was created by the New Age fraud, I mean fad
• 24:01
  that popped up in the nineteen seventies and nineteen eighties.
• 24:05
  This legend fooled people for one hundred years, and you
• 24:07
  know what, it wasn't a waste of time. Quartz crystal
• 24:11
  is about as close to a magic material as we
• 24:14
  can get. Crystals can manipulate light frequencies, split them, combine them,
• 24:18
  create lasers. Crystals can generate electricity. We talked about this
• 24:23
  during the Tesla Pyramid episode.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Are You're the peoplant linked down at the bottom of
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  your cereal bow.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Crystals can also store electricity more efficiently than batteries.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: But here's the big one.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Certain crystals can conduct electricity with perfect efficiency. This starts
• 24:38
  to get into zero point energy territory. Crystals can entangle particles,
• 24:43
  making them useful in quantum computers. Scientists are using crystals
• 24:47
  to create self healing materials. Some say crystals could be
• 24:50
  the secret to teleportation or the secret to consciousness itself. Now,
• 24:55
  a lot of this is theoretical, but there is one
• 24:58
  magical property crystals have that we're using right now, data storage.
• 25:03
  And here's where the Martian Atlantis story pops up again.
• 25:07
  If you were an advanced civilization going extinct and you
• 25:10
  wanted to preserve all your knowledge forever, you would encode
• 25:13
  that knowledge onto crystal.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Crystal is harder than steel.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: It can survive extreme heat and pressure, and the data
• 25:20
  on it can last for over thirteen billion years. And
• 25:23
  quartz crystal can store a lot of data, which is
• 25:26
  an understatement. Recently, scientists encoded the entire human genome on
• 25:31
  a crystal smaller.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Than a quarter.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: So how much data could you store on a thirty
• 25:37
  pound crystal skull? Exibisive data? So what does that mean? Well,
• 25:42
  in one skull you can store the full text of
• 25:44
  every book ever written and still have room for every
• 25:48
  scientific paper, journal, and study ever done, and still have
• 25:52
  room for every letter, manuscript, and record in history, and
• 25:57
  still have room for every photo or video taken, every
• 26:01
  song ever sung, and you would still have room for
• 26:04
  every word spoken in every conversation by every human who
• 26:08
  ever lived. The legend of the Crystal Skull should remind
• 26:12
  us that wisdom doesn't have to come from a lost civilization.
• 26:16
  Technical innovation doesn't have to come from outer space. The
• 26:19
  human race is capable of everything we've talked about today,
• 26:22
  and much more. We haven't even scratched the surface of
• 26:25
  our potential now. I have no doubt that one day
• 26:27
  we'll unlock all the power and technology described in today's
• 26:31
  legend interstellar travel, anti gravity, telepathic communication, teleportation, and instant
• 26:37
  access to all human knowledge. But we won't get this
• 26:41
  power from a skull from Mars. It will come from
• 26:43
  a machine far more advanced, the skull sitting on your shoulders.
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  Speaker 9: To roswell And I just thought the smiling man.
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  Speaker 2: Counting me.
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  Speaker 10: With the bench of fish on Thursday night, when day changing,
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  and when up then.
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  Speaker 2: Never why that to just hear the.
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  Speaker 11: Truth of the way through.
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  Speaker 9: Then the packman's sidings and the solar stuff still comes.
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  that swift day changing.
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