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As you can see on the left there, this is
actually the first scene, one of the first

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scenes from the first Indiana Jones film.

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And people thought it's become kind of like
this mythical thing, the idea of these...

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and everyone relates it to that.

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But actually, there's an ancient culture in
Central America and Costa Rica that has...

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of these spheres.

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Often, some of them are actually as big as
the ones featured in the film.

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And this is what inspired Steven Spielberg
and George Lucas to actually use that as

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part of the film.

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But rather than being booby traps, it may
actually have other meanings, which I think

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we'll get into obviously in this talk.

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There's a whole, the whole of Costa Rica now
has the spheres because they've all moved

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up from this southern area.

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It's really around this area here, but you've
got San Jose kind of further north, but the

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Stone Spheres area is around somewhere called
Golfito, Palma Sur and Palma Norte, and also

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on the islands nearby.

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There are some 300 have been discovered.

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And I did a bit of research before I went
there trying to find out if anyone had really

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been there and I could get exact locations of
them, but no one really knew.

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I asked David Hatcher-Childress, Lee
Pennington and various other researchers...

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about them and made videos on them.

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But alas, not much was to be found.

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But the first undertaking of studying these
spheres really was when they were discovered

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by the United Fruit Company when they went
down to Costa Rica to create the sort of

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banana plantations and various other things.

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Doris Stone, which I think is a remarkably
good name, was the first person, and she

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was a sort of archaeologist who was married
to one of the United Fruit Company...

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And she actually published a report in 1943
in American antiquity that caught the...

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of Samuel Lothrop and his wife in the Peabody
Museum in Harvard University.

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And they came out in 1948 and did the first
survey of over about 120 of these spheres.

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They excavated some of them because many of
them were buried within the ground.

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And you can see them doing the excavations
here, and this is them there, and they were

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kind of sort of getting them out of the
ground and other things.

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The biggest one they found was about nine
feet, and there are suggestions, and there

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are more being discovered as we speak,
actually.

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And then Matthew Sterling came over.

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This was the next real excavation, was
Matthew Sterling, and he was the guy who...

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the whole Olmec culture back in the 40s and
50s on the Gulf Coast of Mexico.

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And interestingly, we'll see a couple of
shots later of a stone sphere in Mexico at...

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which was actually the capital of the Olmec
world.

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But he was one of the key archaeologists
around that time.

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There's a lot of prehistory of the spheres.

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There's lots of legends.

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We'll go through some of them.

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But, excuse me, some believe, traditionally
believed they were carved between 200 BC and

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1500.

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The kind of vagueness we get with them.

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And the method for dating them is quite
tricky because some of them are just...

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on the surface, or they've been moved,
there's no strata.

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Most of the dating has been calculated or
guessed at really by stratigraphy, by where

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they are in the soil and in the local
geology.

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But there has been pottery found, and it kind
of does date back to that kind of era

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of the Aguas-Buenas culture.

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And there's various other cultures around the
whole Diquis Delta, that whole area,

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which kind of suggests that it was quite
widespread in that area.

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But I think what fascinates me really about
this is the fact that it's really, it's

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fairly confined to one area of Costa Rica.

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It's all around this kind of southern kind of
area, off the islands, Golfito.

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But Palma Sur and Palma Norte are the key
towns to go to.

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And they're right next to each other, just on
either side of the river.

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But a lot of them have been moved to San
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There are a couple of other interesting kind
of sites around, you know, in Costa Rica.

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But the stone spheres are the things that
really grab people's attention.

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So let me just, oh sorry, have I just jumped
forward there?

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Yeah, one second.

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So it was really the great explorer, if you
want to call him that, Christopher Columbus,

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on September the 18th, 1502, stumbled across
what he thought was India.

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And actually, this was one of his, I think it
was one of his fourth and final voyage.

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So September the 18th, 1502, he stumbled into
the east coast of Costa Rica.

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And he believed, he obviously found India.

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And he went into the land, he met with the
local tribes, he was shown their kind of...

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He was even taken to one of the graves of
their kings.

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And he eventually heard stories that on the
western side, which is the area we're kind...

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was a great naval culture, which had a
different name.

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And it's like 10 days walk from the eastern
side, which he came into this area here,...

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And they didn't, by the time, when some of
them went over there,

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they didn't really find any evidence of this
naval culture, although the stories were...

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And this kind of gives, you know, this is
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because this is really the thinnest part of,
you know, Central America.

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You can get through it, and a little bit
further south, we have the Panama Canal.

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But Christopher Columbus was, you know,
there's nice kind of ideas about who he wa...

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but he actually was quite a mean person, and
sort of took people as slaves and used the...

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But on the east coast was the realm of the
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and on the further west was the Baruchas,
Chibchis and the Dikwes peoples in the...

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There were a few hundred thousand of them
when they turned up.

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This was the sort of rough estimate, but soon
smallpox and other influenza and other thi...

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pretty much, unfortunately, a bit like what
happened in North America and in Mexico an...

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But only a tiny percentage of the actual
descendants of the sphere makers really ex...

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Unfortunately, this is just the nature of
what, you know, the westerners, sorry, the...

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This just shows you, you know, kind of
artists' impression of when that man turne...

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Anyway, this is me just at the San Jose
Museum, just so you can see the size of th...

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This is the one that's just outside.

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If you're going to go to, you have to go to
San Jose first.

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You really want to go to the museum.

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There's about maybe 10 or 11 spheres there.

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There was always these legends associated
with them, which I found really interesting,

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that they either had gold in them or they had
some kind of treasure inside them.

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I got talking to Lee Pennington when I met
him when I was up in Wisconsin last October.

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And he'd been to Costa Rica, did some
research.

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We got talking about this.

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You saw in the video there, the sort of black
stone, little black pebble in the middle o...

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And some of the spheres, what they found is
these small black pebbles.

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And there's legends that there were coffee
beans at the center of these spheres.

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So when this one was broken open and I
actually found that, it was quite surprising.

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So you have to question, how did that get
into the center if it was a natural rock?

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I mean, did they somehow, sort of, you know,
somehow psychically see that something was...

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and then they carved it around that? Or were
they cast even?

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Some suggestions, like people like Joseph
Davidovitz and others, suggest that some o...

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Which I find quite, you know, quite an
interesting idea.

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But some of this is made of a very hard type
of granite.

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Most of these spheres are slightly different
type of granite to what we're used to.

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But he just shows you some other ones and
just other angles of the ones in the museu...

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And these are the ones that are just outside,
kind of in the garden area of the museum.

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And it's worth, it's definitely worth taking
a look at them if you're there.

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Granodiorite is the kind of, I don't know if
I'm pronouncing that correctly, Mr. Shock.

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But granodiorite is what most of them are
made of.

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So it is a pretty hard, you know, igneous,
hard igneous stone

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that comes out of the nearby Telemanka range
of mountains.

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There's also quite a hard limestone, Coquina,
they call it,

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which is made, formed from shell and sand
beach deposits, which look quite different.

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And as we go, I think this one here is
probably one of those.

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As we went down around the southern part of
Costa Rica, you could really tell the...

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And you could see the kind of, between the
granite style and the limestone style rock.

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This just shows you some of the strange kind
of what I believe,

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they look like they're grinding for grains
and things like that.

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But some of them like this, and there's some
other ones which are perfectly circular.

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It's almost like the spheres were on top of
them.

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And this is how they were found in some
cases.

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This shows you some of the Lothrop's early
excavation maps.

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And you can see some of these, it's just a
sort of artist's impression of one of thes...

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The spheres were actually found with these
kind of things that the spheres may have b...

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And they got to understand the spheres range
from the size of a tennis ball

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all the way up to what we see Indiana Jones
running away from at the beginning of Raid...

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So there's quite a variation in sizes.

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So it's hard to get any kind of, it's
difficult to find a pattern there.

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And this just shows you, you know, this is
like a top view of that, about where they...

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It shows you some detail, which I think is
absolutely beautiful.

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This is made out of the same rock as the
spheres, the Granite Diorite.

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And this is that sphere we saw in the video.

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This is the one which has got these very
strange markings on it,

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which some people believe is like a star map
with spirals and other things.

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And this here is the small black stone or the
legend of the coffee bean, which kind of,...

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No, at the time these were supposedly made
200 to like, 200 BC to 1500 AD.

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There were no known iron tools around at that
time by the peoples there.

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But somehow they worked the stones, very hard
stone.

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They worked from a massive sort of square
chunk.

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They kind of carved out the ground, somehow
made these perfect spheres out of them.

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There's also the cosmology of the Bri-Bri,
which is shared by the Cabacares and anoth...

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They're called Taras cannonballs.

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And they were like gods.

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It was like the thunder gods would fire them
through a giant blowpipe to kind of create...

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So there's all these different ideas about
it, which are kind of fascinating when you...

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This is just a representation.

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This is, I think, Lothwap and a couple of
other people later kind of noticed this,...

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And there's another sphere, one other sphere
like this in situ, more or less in situ in...

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It was one of the larger ones, which has got
a much more elaborate carving on it with a...

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But this is this is supposed to be exactly
this is sort of exactly what is on there.

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Let me just check it out.

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I mean, it's quite complicated to do with
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Some people's just as Andromeda Galaxy and
various other galaxies all represented.

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But this is pretty much speculation at the
moment.

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But interesting nonetheless.

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This is just a scene, a clip I just nicked
from ancient aliens.

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And they kind of summarized it like this,
which is quite a tiny bit inaccurate.

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This is in the museum again.

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This is the size of the largest one, even
though it's just a flattened piece of rock...

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And there's me standing there so you can get
some kind of aspect of the size.

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This is one of the ones in the museum.

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These are obviously the fascinating stools
that they kind of come on.

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And you get these.

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This is these are very odd.

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People just suggest their funerary kind of
tables, which they lay the dead out on.

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But I have a zap and George Erickson and a
couple of other researchers have kind of...

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Is that they were actually used on the wooden
boats or the balsa wood boats they were us...

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So then it enables navigators to actually
sail against the wind better.

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This is like an old technique from the
Polynesian area.

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And this is actually was these some of these
were actually seen by shown by the tribes ...

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Christopher Columbus and they took him to the
and they showed him this.

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And later it was realized that they were
maybe showing one navigator, Christopher...

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So it's unclear.

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It's unclear. It's just sort of speculation
put forth.

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But look at the beautiful stone carving here.

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You can just see the intricacy all the way
around the edge and a slightly curved as...

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So we're looking at quite high technology to
create such things.

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But this kind of grabbed my attention.

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Obviously, this is this is just one of the
this is one of the more flatter pieces of...

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It's not from a sphere.

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I don't know why you put that there.

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But this is like, you know, classic relief
carving that we see in other places around...

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I think the most obvious one is that Robert
showed a picture of last night is the one ...

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This is a beautiful relief carving.

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And just to create that is incredibly tricky
way to, you know, create rock carvings.

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But it's a very similar style and design to
Quebec Lee Tepe.

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We also see similar things in Peru.

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This is at Silestani around Lake Titicaca.

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This is one of the Chilpas or towers there.

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We see another sort of relief carving on the
outside.

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This is also at Silestani.

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This is just down in the car park next to the
museum.

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They just throw a load of these next to this
old couple of old cars.

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They dumped there.

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You still see the number plate there.

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And this is incredible kind of relief
carving.

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It's very worn, weathered.

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But it just shows you that there are
connections here, you know, and there are...

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And, you know, there's no conclusions here
about this.

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But at least we're starting to spot these
similarities as Robert and others have bee...

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This is the statues that were found in the
same places as many of the stone spheres.

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This guy is amazing.

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Look at that haircut.

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It's like a punk.

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Incredible.

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This is very hard, kind of black, kind of
looks like diorite.

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This one's quite weird looking.

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But this guy here is sort of like a classic
representation that we find, find very...

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But I think the most striking similarity to
me is the Erfam Museum, which I think mayb...

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But you can kind of see, you know, we keep
finding these.

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We keep finding these connections, you know,
between these different places around the...

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And to me, they're like signatures of the
ancient people,

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probably the ancient navigators leaving their
little signs around the world.

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And I think Costa Rica, I mean, to make those
stone spheres is quite a remarkable feat a...

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We see other serpent symbolism.

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I think this is from the museum as well.

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And again, we see serpents carved all over
Peru, everywhere, all around on the polygo...

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So we see the serpent symbolism, which I
believe these were the serpent people.

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These were the serpent gods who traveled
around the world, the Viracochans, the...

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And the Anunnaki and other things like this.

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So this just shows you one of the spheres in
the museum, which I thought was quite...

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Yeah, this is just what we're looking at
here.

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So whether this was done later or whether
this was part of it, I just wanted to thro...

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This is one of the ones just in the park, the
local kind of park.

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You can go and visit, just kind of walk
around town a little bit to kind of see th...

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And they just become, people just take them
for granted there now.

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And so I find it quite quite strange when you
go there.

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It's just like sort of pieces of art
scattered everywhere around San Jose.

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But Dr. Hoopes, John Hoopes, who was the
major researcher on this,

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believes they may have been, you know, a sign
of wealth or sort of status.

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And they were carved for the priestly cast or
the kings or the tribal chiefs of that area.

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Many of the stones are obviously in danger
because they've just been taken by rich...

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Only, I think John Hoopes managed to account
for 186 of them,

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but there are said to be at least 300 in the
whole area.

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This just shows you, we just went for a
little walk to go and catch a bus to go so...

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This was near the bus station. I thought this
was quite cool.

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Someone had done this beautiful mural on the
side of this doctor's surgery.

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Then we basically got a bus and we headed
from San Jose around here.

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I think it was a six or seven hour trip down
to Palma Sur.

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And I didn't know anyone who's actually ever
been there.

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So we were just winging it a little bit.

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There's hardly anything online about where
these spheres are.

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So we kind of just, an even lonely planet and
the guidebooks don't give you any...

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There's nothing there.

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They just mentioned there's a couple in Palma
Sur, a couple in Palma Norte, one in Gulf...

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And that's it. They don't give you any
location.

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So we were kind of like just winging it and
we went down there to see what we could find.

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Kind of questing really, if you like.

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And this is the river. There's two sides.

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There's Palma Sur and there's Palma Norte,
which is south, north kind of thing.

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And you have to cross the river to get to the
two areas.

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The spheres in both of them.

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The only place you can stay is Palma Sur.

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And this is just a beautiful, lush
countryside you get around there.

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This is one we just found outside a
restaurant.

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You can just see this is just outside a
Chinese restaurant in Palma Sur.

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So this is kind of, you know, you just walk
about and you find them.

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This is kind of the fun part of it really.

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I did take GPS readings of the mall and I'm
going to, you know, do an article about it...

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This is actually in the college, the
technical college.

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And we spotted this because we were staying
just down the road, just out of town at this,

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these kind of shacks really.

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And luckily we didn't know where the spheres
were, but we had to walk past the college ...

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And we spotted this one. We're like, oh,
good.

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We found one of the smallest spheres.
Fantastic.

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So we got chatting with the guy, you know,
sort of, you know, English to a Spanish...

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And he said, oh, no, come in, come in.

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There's something to look at. I was like,
okay, all right, cool.

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Is there another little sphere somewhere?

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There wasn't a little sphere. There was two
of the biggest spheres there are.

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Just hidden behind these kind of corrugated
iron sort of fences.

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We were like, oh, thank God we spoke to him
because we wouldn't have spotted them.

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This is Sheena, my lovely lady friend,
girlfriend.

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He's just next to one of the spheres.

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She's a bit shorter than me, so it makes it
look bigger, whereas I make it look really...

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But you can see the size. And this is the one
sort of to the left.

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This is the one to the right. There's two
there.

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And these are, these looked almost perfect.

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I couldn't see really any discrepancies on
one of these.

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There was a couple, maybe a minor discrepancy
on one of them,

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but it was just kind of one of those stunning
things you see.

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Just imagine when it was just pure kind of
countryside landscape and they were just...

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It is really like kind of strange and
mystical, seeing something like that.

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If you were a traveler and you just stumble
across something like that, you go, oh, my...

292
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You would think giant giants were involved in
it.

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This is our friend who let us in and kind of
showed us this.

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But yeah, these are remarkable, really.

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And they're just behind corrugated iron
fences because they're like doing some...

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And this is, I've started taking, I took GPS
readings and all this kind of stuff,

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which I'm going to analyze eventually, see if
there's any things there.

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But there is some research done on the
placement and location of them.

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But the problem is all the ones that are
above the surface have been moved pretty...

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So it's really tricky to have any meaning to
their placement,

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any geodesy or the geomancy or any alignments
between them because they've all been move...

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These are just in the park in Parmasur.

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This is just there's four of these.

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There's one on each corner of this square
park here and there's, you know, kind of...

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It's close up of one of them.

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This is our driver, Manuel, who we got.

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We luckily we stumbled across him and he was
just like the best guy ever.

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And he tried to sell us everything,
basically, including these things.

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We paid him quite well.

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We had a whole day out with him and it was
the funnest day we had in Costa Rica.

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It was brilliant.

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So if you get the right driver and they know
where he knew where everything was,

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he knew all the obscure sites.

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So we kind of, you know, synchronized and met
him.

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You know, he took us around for a whole day,
two days, in fact.

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Again, we go, we were in that, what we just
looked at was Parmasur.

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And then this is, we go over the river to
Parma Norte.

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There's no hotels there, so don't even try
and stay there.

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And here we have a sphere just next to an old
train, which I thought was quite a nice shot.

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Again, there's a whole garden of spheres
here.

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There's a whole park of spheres.

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This is another one.

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This one's been sort of pieced back together
because this is one of the ones that was...

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See what was in it.

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Then you have these beautiful trees that have
been painted multiple colors,

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which are all in the area of the spheres.

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So this is the park of the spheres.

328
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There's several in the park, including that
one, obviously.

329
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Yep, it's going to be loads more of this now
for the next 20 minutes, really.

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Loads of spheres.

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This is one of the ones which is made of that
kind of limestone.

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And you can see the sort of rough side of it,
which I thought was quite interesting,

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whether it was unfinished or whether it looks
like it's just weathering because it's lik...

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You can kind of see that from the side here a
bit better.

335
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And there are a few others like this, but
some suggest,

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there are many, many people who suggest this
nowadays, that everything is kind of cast.

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But then you've got to make a perfectly
spherical cast somehow and get the molten...

338
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It's just an artist's representation of how
they could have done it.

339
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But then it's going to be easier to make that
than it is probably to make these.

340
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So it kind of defeats the object a little
bit.

341
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It's just sort of an idea of molten rock and
everything.

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As you go out of Parma Norte and you head, I
think, slightly north,

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we wanted to go to this place called Finca 6,
which was famously,

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is where many of the spheres are still in
situ, still buried in the ground with part...

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But on the way there, we came across this.

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And this is just like a corner area with some
farm over there.

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And here, it's just a couple of spheres that
have been exploded, really, and cut open.

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This is like a slice of one of them, which
has been put upright, which is kind of odd.

349
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And here's just a few spheres, there's me
kind of filming them.

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And here's just a few more different shots,
so you get an idea of it.

351
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And again, we have this kind of rough, hewn
edge on one of them again.

352
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But this is like a different type of rock.

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It's not the sort of more, it looks a bit
more gray than limestone that had a simila...

354
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This is one of the ones that's been split
open.

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This has been here for probably like 50 years
like this, so the weathering has even star...

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This is an earlier photo someone else took
before the grass had grown over them.

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That part went on there kind of thing.

358
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So you can see how it is without the long
grass there.

359
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Yep, another one.

360
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And then there's this strange kind of cut on
here.

361
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So whether this was part of the process of
constructing it,

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whether it was just a later thing when they
were trying to split it open, we're not to...

363
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And here's just a close up of the sort of
split open one, which looks remarkably lik...

364
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It kind of looked remarkably similar, whereas
that's a more granite looking rock.

365
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Anyway, we eventually made it to Finka Six,
which is probably about 10 miles out of th...

366
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And they're actually turning this now into an
archaeological kind of tourist site.

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Haven't actually done that yet.

368
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So when we turned up, they were all workers
there.

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They were looking at us funny and we were a
bit worried.

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But luckily our driver kind of spoke to them,
sort of dealt with it.

371
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And here's just a couple of the finds they
found there recently.

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There was a whole culture there, the whole
kind of village, almost like a town.

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Some of the spheres were placed outside, like
there were two spheres outside the sort of...

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to some of the more, what they think are the
royal kind of areas where they lived.

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And here's just some of the mounds that are
left where some of the settlement was.

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So we are here right now.

377
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And here we can see, these spheres didn't
form into this circle.

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They were played, they were found and then
put into this one little area.

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So don't get excited, that's not a stone
sphere circle.

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But these ones are in situ and so these ones
have been moved now as well, unfortunately.

381
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And this is where several other ones were
found that have now been moved.

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But this is where several of them are now
placed.

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Whenever they find spheres nowadays, they all
take them to Sphinx VI and put them into t...

384
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And these are the two main areas of living
areas, which they believe were like the...

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or the kind of leaders of the area.

386
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,060
This whole area was kind of inhabited.

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So this is like almost like the center of the
stone producing people.

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And I think it was like a multifunctional
site as well.

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Here's just some of the smaller stones that
made up some of the living quarters.

390
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And here's just a short film, I don't know if
you can hear any sound for this or anything.

391
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Just to show you, this is like, it is a
banana plantation.

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The United Fruit Company are still involved
in this.

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00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:04,060
I just thought it was quite fun to get a
little bit of this on film.

394
00:28:04,159 --> 00:28:08,159
It's kind of weird when you're sort of just
looking at spheres and suddenly these bana...

395
00:28:10,159 --> 00:28:12,460
When they first went by, the guy was out of
shot already,

396
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because he's like 20 feet ahead of the
bananas.

397
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And we're like, how are these bananas moving?

398
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,460
So this is where a lot of our bananas come
from, funnily enough.

399
00:28:20,460 --> 00:28:22,359
You know, probably one you have for
breakfast.

400
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:24,559
Could well be that.

401
00:28:24,559 --> 00:28:27,759
So, yeah, sort of show some appreciation of
that.

402
00:28:28,659 --> 00:28:33,259
So this is like the area, it's me sort of
half naked, so calm down.

403
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,460
This is the area where some of the spheres
have now been placed.

404
00:28:36,460 --> 00:28:39,559
They kind of just keep them in this kind of
small field.

405
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:45,160
There are many thinkers now, they're sort of
marking them out properly

406
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:49,460
about where any ones they find in situ, they
try and keep them there now.

407
00:28:49,759 --> 00:28:50,960
They don't move them.

408
00:28:51,460 --> 00:28:55,359
There's several other farms, they've
discovered them, one in the whole area.

409
00:28:56,359 --> 00:28:59,859
So fortunately, there's a bit more kind of
organizational skill with them nowadays.

410
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So they are being protected.

411
00:29:01,759 --> 00:29:06,259
I just took GPS readings because that's kind
of what I like to get up to.

412
00:29:07,660 --> 00:29:11,759
And this one, this one they think maybe is in
situ still.

413
00:29:12,259 --> 00:29:14,759
This is like a little another field there.

414
00:29:14,759 --> 00:29:17,560
Now these ones definitely are, these are
buried deep in the ground.

415
00:29:18,460 --> 00:29:20,560
And so there's some interesting alignments
with some of these.

416
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,460
We'll have a look at, we'll have a look at
shortly.

417
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:26,960
So I'm just checking my notes here.

418
00:29:27,259 --> 00:29:27,759
Yeah.

419
00:29:29,559 --> 00:29:33,759
And this is just one of the top part of one
of them, which has been chipped slightly.

420
00:29:33,759 --> 00:29:37,660
And these are the kind of channels, they
think they had buildings upon these parts.

421
00:29:38,460 --> 00:29:40,660
And these were for water and things like
this.

422
00:29:41,860 --> 00:29:44,059
Again, here's another one just sticking out
the ground.

423
00:29:44,059 --> 00:29:45,660
There's about three or four of them up there.

424
00:29:46,259 --> 00:29:49,259
We'll have a look at some maps of how they
were discovered shortly.

425
00:29:49,460 --> 00:29:51,759
Now this is El Silencio.

426
00:29:51,759 --> 00:29:54,360
This is another thinker, Rancho El Silencio,

427
00:29:54,359 --> 00:29:58,959
which is about 20 minutes, 10 minutes, 10, 15
minutes from thinker six.

428
00:29:59,659 --> 00:30:01,759
This is the largest stone sphere that's ever
been discovered,

429
00:30:01,759 --> 00:30:03,859
but it's been pretty badly damaged.

430
00:30:04,559 --> 00:30:07,059
They're not sure if this is in situ, it may
have rolled down the hill,

431
00:30:07,059 --> 00:30:10,759
but this is actually quite high up on a kind
of ledge kind of thing.

432
00:30:13,459 --> 00:30:16,859
And this is just, this was found in the
undergrowth nearby, you know,

433
00:30:16,859 --> 00:30:20,359
it sort of formerly it was like an
archaeological site which people could visit,

434
00:30:20,359 --> 00:30:23,959
but now it's all private kind of land you're
not supposed to visit there.

435
00:30:24,659 --> 00:30:26,759
This is John Hoopes actually at that stone.

436
00:30:26,759 --> 00:30:28,359
You can see the kind of size of it.

437
00:30:28,359 --> 00:30:29,259
And it's also him again.

438
00:30:29,259 --> 00:30:34,259
So I just want to reference him because he's
one of the key researchers really.

439
00:30:35,059 --> 00:30:38,859
He's got a lot of very interesting
information online if you want to look him...

440
00:30:39,659 --> 00:30:44,159
And then there's this kind of place where
many of the spheres are put as well.

441
00:30:44,159 --> 00:30:48,359
This is another place, another sort of 10
minutes back towards Palma Sur.

442
00:30:49,559 --> 00:30:52,159
And this is where one of the most interesting
spheres is this one,

443
00:30:52,159 --> 00:30:53,759
which we'll have a close-up of shortly,

444
00:30:54,059 --> 00:30:56,759
which has got these carvings on it and it
looked like boats.

445
00:30:59,259 --> 00:31:00,359
Yeah, and you can just see this.

446
00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:03,359
I'm just like I said, there's just lots and
lots of spheres to look at.

447
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:06,460
There's Sheena with the sphere.

448
00:31:06,460 --> 00:31:08,660
This one is actually the one with the boat on
it.

449
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,559
You can't see it that clearly and no one's
actually researched this,

450
00:31:13,559 --> 00:31:15,660
documented this and drawn it all up yet.

451
00:31:16,059 --> 00:31:17,759
So this is like kind of new stuff.

452
00:31:18,359 --> 00:31:19,859
But luckily our guy there,

453
00:31:19,859 --> 00:31:23,559
that's just one of the spirals on it.

454
00:31:23,559 --> 00:31:25,759
And then there's like a boat kind of picture
underneath it.

455
00:31:25,759 --> 00:31:27,059
You might be able to see it better on here.

456
00:31:27,059 --> 00:31:27,559
There you go.

457
00:31:27,559 --> 00:31:28,559
You can kind of see this boat.

458
00:31:29,559 --> 00:31:31,259
It's got these sort of bits coming out.

459
00:31:31,259 --> 00:31:32,259
There's like a sail on it.

460
00:31:32,559 --> 00:31:33,359
Difficult to see here.

461
00:31:33,559 --> 00:31:35,159
I'm going to try and get, I'm probably going
to have a,

462
00:31:35,159 --> 00:31:36,559
I took hundreds of photos of this.

463
00:31:36,559 --> 00:31:40,759
I'm going to try and do an artist impression
of this at some point for the video I'm go...

464
00:31:41,659 --> 00:31:45,359
Just to see if we can, no one's actually
drawn this up yet that I'm aware of.

465
00:31:47,059 --> 00:31:48,159
Here's just some other shots of it.

466
00:31:48,159 --> 00:31:49,659
You can kind of see the shape of the boat
here.

467
00:31:49,660 --> 00:31:53,360
So it just suggests that maybe they were a
naval culture

468
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,360
and this was the thinnest part of Central
America.

469
00:31:56,460 --> 00:31:58,259
Suggesting that, you know,

470
00:31:58,259 --> 00:32:00,560
there's a lot more going on here than meets
the eye.

471
00:32:00,860 --> 00:32:02,160
That shows you just the size of it.

472
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,160
And there's part of the boat picture there
with the spirals and other things on it.

473
00:32:05,860 --> 00:32:07,360
So we spent a bit of time there.

474
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:08,660
Again, this is vital.

475
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:10,560
If you want to go and look at these spheres,

476
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,460
you have to find Manuel and he'll drive you
about.

477
00:32:14,060 --> 00:32:15,759
And I'll give you his number if you need it.

478
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:18,060
And he speaks English.

479
00:32:18,559 --> 00:32:21,259
So as we were kind of hanging about in
Parmasur,

480
00:32:21,259 --> 00:32:25,059
we just decided to walk around and go in
people's gardens and things like this.

481
00:32:25,659 --> 00:32:27,359
I actually got caught going in someone's
garden.

482
00:32:27,359 --> 00:32:30,960
I had to explain myself while I was filming
in their garden with a camera.

483
00:32:32,559 --> 00:32:33,259
So that was kind of fun.

484
00:32:33,259 --> 00:32:35,259
They don't have many guns there, so that's
all right really.

485
00:32:36,059 --> 00:32:37,460
But this is one I found.

486
00:32:37,460 --> 00:32:42,159
This was actually in a kind of small hotel,

487
00:32:42,159 --> 00:32:44,259
sort of the shacks you can stay in.

488
00:32:45,159 --> 00:32:47,259
I think that's probably the same one.

489
00:32:47,259 --> 00:32:48,460
This is our friend Manuel.

490
00:32:48,460 --> 00:32:50,259
So if you go down there, that's what he looks
like.

491
00:32:51,460 --> 00:32:52,059
You'll find him.

492
00:32:53,359 --> 00:32:55,660
But there's literally just some of them are
in people's...

493
00:32:55,660 --> 00:32:59,259
You can just look over the fence, you know,
off the street and they're there.

494
00:32:59,259 --> 00:33:02,559
And they let you in, you can photograph them,
touch them and things.

495
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:05,660
Then as we were kind of heading back,

496
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,160
we spotted a couple on the side of the road
next to this pizza place.

497
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:12,859
I've already seen some at a Chinese place as
well.

498
00:33:12,859 --> 00:33:14,859
So a bit of variety there.

499
00:33:15,759 --> 00:33:17,659
These are like the sort of more limestone
ones.

500
00:33:17,959 --> 00:33:20,159
This just shows you, this is the whole map.

501
00:33:20,159 --> 00:33:22,459
This is the whole area where they've really
been discovered.

502
00:33:22,459 --> 00:33:24,059
And thanks to John Hoops and others,

503
00:33:25,459 --> 00:33:27,159
they're actually marking where these are.

504
00:33:27,859 --> 00:33:31,359
So we've got Finka 6 here, which is where we
were, this whole area here.

505
00:33:31,359 --> 00:33:32,659
But there's others found.

506
00:33:33,159 --> 00:33:35,559
Most of them have been moved now, but there
are stuff,

507
00:33:35,559 --> 00:33:37,459
there are discoveries still being made.

508
00:33:39,259 --> 00:33:42,359
And this is one of the latest discoveries
actually.

509
00:33:42,359 --> 00:33:47,159
This is a photo of one of the latest
excavations that was happening last year

510
00:33:47,459 --> 00:33:49,759
on the Osa Canton area.

511
00:33:51,359 --> 00:33:55,959
But again, they were just digging drainage
canals in the area around the museum,

512
00:33:56,959 --> 00:33:59,759
quite a way from Finka 6, but that kind of
area.

513
00:34:01,159 --> 00:34:05,359
But this is, because of all these new
discoveries and the realization

514
00:34:05,359 --> 00:34:07,359
that this is important stuff,

515
00:34:07,859 --> 00:34:11,259
UNESCO have got involved and it's going to be
a proper big archaeological site.

516
00:34:11,260 --> 00:34:13,260
People have to pay to go into it and things
like this.

517
00:34:13,260 --> 00:34:15,960
But at least it's being preserved and
protected

518
00:34:16,260 --> 00:34:17,960
and the spheres are staying in situ

519
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,160
and they're kind of doing what they can to
accommodate that.

520
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,460
Because it's just not been like that there,
basically.

521
00:34:23,460 --> 00:34:24,960
It's just been pretty random.

522
00:34:25,060 --> 00:34:27,460
Most people just look at the ones in San Jose
Museum.

523
00:34:27,860 --> 00:34:30,060
But these are the configurations they kind of
come in

524
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:31,460
when they were discovered.

525
00:34:31,460 --> 00:34:32,660
This is actually a Finka 6.

526
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,160
Some of, two of these have been, they're in
the museum now

527
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,060
and I think these two are in the museum now.

528
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:38,560
So unfortunately they're not.

529
00:34:38,559 --> 00:34:44,759
But luckily, John Hoopsey did actually record
where they were.

530
00:34:45,259 --> 00:34:48,259
And this is where this, either Zap and George
Erickson

531
00:34:48,259 --> 00:34:49,559
and their book, Atlantis in America,

532
00:34:49,559 --> 00:34:51,460
when you extend these alignments,

533
00:34:51,860 --> 00:34:53,659
they do kind of go over to Europe,

534
00:34:53,659 --> 00:34:55,960
which he suggests they may link with
Stonehenge.

535
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,259
There's other ones that go towards Easter
Island.

536
00:34:58,259 --> 00:35:00,460
But when you do, when you actually get on
Google Earth

537
00:35:00,460 --> 00:35:03,659
or you get, start doing a bit of proper data
research,

538
00:35:03,659 --> 00:35:05,259
it's not that accurate, really.

539
00:35:05,259 --> 00:35:06,159
But it's an idea.

540
00:35:06,259 --> 00:35:08,559
It would be useful for navigators to know
where they're going.

541
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:12,259
And similar ideas are found on certain
islands in the Pacific,

542
00:35:12,259 --> 00:35:14,759
in the South Pacific, where they had these
spheres,

543
00:35:14,759 --> 00:35:16,759
they had these stones marked across the
landscape.

544
00:35:16,759 --> 00:35:19,259
So they were directional markers of where you
need to sail.

545
00:35:20,059 --> 00:35:21,659
But I think they were a bit more, you know,

546
00:35:21,659 --> 00:35:23,859
it's kind of a, to me it sounds kind of
vague.

547
00:35:23,859 --> 00:35:26,059
So I'm a little bit unsure about that whole
theory.

548
00:35:26,359 --> 00:35:27,960
But these ones that are going straight lines,

549
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:31,259
obviously fascinate any late hunter that
might be here.

550
00:35:33,059 --> 00:35:34,759
Some of them were in dead straight lines.

551
00:35:34,759 --> 00:35:35,659
It wasn't this long.

552
00:35:35,759 --> 00:35:37,559
This was kind of a small, you know, area,

553
00:35:37,559 --> 00:35:39,859
just a few feet, you know, 30 feet long or
something.

554
00:35:40,259 --> 00:35:42,759
But the spheres were in alignment to each
other.

555
00:35:43,059 --> 00:35:44,960
So whether that had a meaning to them,

556
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,159
or whether it is just because it looked nice
and neat and tidy,

557
00:35:47,460 --> 00:35:48,659
whether it was a lay line.

558
00:35:48,859 --> 00:35:51,960
But this one here is actually pretty much,
you know,

559
00:35:52,659 --> 00:35:53,460
dead straight.

560
00:35:53,460 --> 00:35:56,159
And I find that quite interesting, really.

561
00:35:57,259 --> 00:35:59,159
And you can see this is the area we looked
at,

562
00:35:59,259 --> 00:36:00,460
the whole Finkers 6 area.

563
00:36:00,460 --> 00:36:02,059
And if you extend the alignment,

564
00:36:02,759 --> 00:36:04,259
things do start connecting up.

565
00:36:05,260 --> 00:36:07,360
Again, this is all kind of speculative
because

566
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,160
so many of them have now been moved.

567
00:36:09,460 --> 00:36:11,660
Here just shows you the arrangement of some
of them.

568
00:36:12,460 --> 00:36:14,660
This was actually Doris Stone's original,

569
00:36:15,660 --> 00:36:20,360
original research when she discovered them
back in the 40s.

570
00:36:23,060 --> 00:36:24,160
This is more here.

571
00:36:24,660 --> 00:36:26,360
This is Farm 4.

572
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,060
This is one of the other farms where some
were discovered.

573
00:36:28,060 --> 00:36:29,760
They've mostly been moved now.

574
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:32,760
Just shows you the spacing of them.

575
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,260
And here as well, the small black dots,

576
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:38,260
where you'll find these.

577
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,960
Now there are, you know, this was from
ancient aliens.

578
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,660
And they, you know, a lot of, some people
suggest they were like

579
00:36:46,060 --> 00:36:50,260
representing planets or other, you know, like
the sun, the moon,

580
00:36:50,260 --> 00:36:53,760
and even stars sort of mapped on the
landscape.

581
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,960
But again, when you look at it, it doesn't
all quite fit together.

582
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:58,960
It's kind of like a nice idea and it kind of,

583
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,060
there could be some astronomical events
happening.

584
00:37:02,059 --> 00:37:05,960
Some of the alignments do seem to match some
sunrises and sunsets.

585
00:37:06,559 --> 00:37:09,960
Some do match moonrises and moonsets, but
it's very, it's quite vague.

586
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:14,659
It's not the accuracy we saw when, you know,
obviously with Alexander Tom and others.

587
00:37:15,059 --> 00:37:18,259
But I think more research is starting to be
done on that,

588
00:37:18,259 --> 00:37:22,259
but there's so little data to work from
because most of them have been moved, like...

589
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,659
However, there are, this is, so we've got
some idea.

590
00:37:25,659 --> 00:37:27,759
I've shown you as many of the spheres as I
could.

591
00:37:28,059 --> 00:37:29,860
We managed to see, I think, 60 spheres.

592
00:37:29,860 --> 00:37:31,860
And I think most of them were shown on there.

593
00:37:32,860 --> 00:37:35,559
So I'm just going to go through around the
world a little bit now,

594
00:37:35,559 --> 00:37:37,659
show you some other spheres around the world.

595
00:37:37,659 --> 00:37:41,159
Now, most of the other ones around the world
are natural kind of spheres,

596
00:37:41,559 --> 00:37:46,659
but it's just nice to put them in context
with the ones we've seen here.

597
00:37:47,259 --> 00:37:50,159
Now, obviously there's these ones in Bosnia.

598
00:37:51,659 --> 00:37:52,759
These are the ones in Costa Rica.

599
00:37:52,759 --> 00:37:56,059
And obviously these are the ones that are
being found in Bosnia.

600
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:58,659
From some angles, they look kind of perfect.

601
00:37:58,859 --> 00:38:05,259
I went to visit these down in, I think back
in 2011, we did a little trip there.

602
00:38:05,659 --> 00:38:11,460
This is Zvidovice area around here.

603
00:38:11,659 --> 00:38:15,859
And this is like, where the, this is like the
sort of official kind of stance on this.

604
00:38:15,859 --> 00:38:19,659
I think Robert's been out there and Andre and
a few others have been out there.

605
00:38:20,059 --> 00:38:21,259
Here's some of the ones.

606
00:38:21,259 --> 00:38:23,460
This is one of the ones in one of the towns
nearby.

607
00:38:23,460 --> 00:38:26,859
And these are the ones in situ in the strange
valley.

608
00:38:26,860 --> 00:38:33,660
Again, officially some of the spheres are
made from the granite diorite again,

609
00:38:33,660 --> 00:38:36,660
which is kind of interesting, but they do
seem kind of natural.

610
00:38:36,660 --> 00:38:38,260
I'm sure Robert may be in the forum.

611
00:38:38,260 --> 00:38:41,660
We can sort of talk about some of the
comparisons here.

612
00:38:41,860 --> 00:38:43,460
That's our friend Matt that came with us.

613
00:38:43,460 --> 00:38:45,860
He was here in Megalofamania a couple of
years ago.

614
00:38:47,260 --> 00:38:51,059
There's Mr. Osmanagich and his friend hanging
about.

615
00:38:52,260 --> 00:38:53,660
But anyway, this is a big,

616
00:38:53,659 --> 00:38:54,859
there's a big debate about this.

617
00:38:54,859 --> 00:38:58,659
So I'm not going to sort of define these as,
you know, carved spheres,

618
00:38:58,659 --> 00:38:59,859
whether they're natural or not.

619
00:38:59,859 --> 00:39:03,859
But I just wanted to show you different
examples around the world, really.

620
00:39:04,859 --> 00:39:09,059
These are the ones that is actually one or
two that have been discovered in Serbia as...

621
00:39:09,059 --> 00:39:11,859
And these are some of the carvings found on
them.

622
00:39:11,859 --> 00:39:14,659
Again, these aren't perfect.

623
00:39:14,659 --> 00:39:18,659
And it's unclear whether they're carved or
natural.

624
00:39:18,659 --> 00:39:21,259
There's not really too much information about
them.

625
00:39:21,260 --> 00:39:26,260
There's not really too much research on
these.

626
00:39:26,260 --> 00:39:30,860
Even in Italy, there's some, it's like this
guy has found them on his farm as well.

627
00:39:30,860 --> 00:39:35,460
So whether these were just worked with by
people at random parts of history,

628
00:39:35,460 --> 00:39:39,060
whether they are part of some potential
global network,

629
00:39:39,060 --> 00:39:41,460
you know, like signatures of the gods, we
really don't know.

630
00:39:41,460 --> 00:39:42,660
But I thought I'd throw it in there.

631
00:39:42,660 --> 00:39:46,860
These are more like eggs, weird shaped ones
in Sardinia.

632
00:39:48,260 --> 00:39:51,060
I'm just sort of taking these off a couple of
websites.

633
00:39:51,059 --> 00:39:54,059
I was looking out on the internet, doing a
bit of research.

634
00:39:54,059 --> 00:39:56,059
And even in France, we get some as well,

635
00:39:56,059 --> 00:39:59,059
which seem to be natural kind of,

636
00:39:59,059 --> 00:40:02,059
natural sort of forming out of the rock, as
you can see here.

637
00:40:05,059 --> 00:40:06,659
I'm not sure exactly where in France that is
actually.

638
00:40:06,659 --> 00:40:10,659
And then the more famous ones are in New
Zealand.

639
00:40:10,659 --> 00:40:15,059
These are on the coast, or the Maraaki
boulders, I think they're called.

640
00:40:15,059 --> 00:40:16,860
And there's quite a lot of these all on the
coast,

641
00:40:16,860 --> 00:40:18,259
and they're kind of beautifully placed,

642
00:40:18,260 --> 00:40:21,260
and have the water flowing over them and all
nice things like that.

643
00:40:21,260 --> 00:40:25,260
But again, these appear to be natural,
according to researchers.

644
00:40:25,260 --> 00:40:28,260
You can just see some other examples here.

645
00:40:30,260 --> 00:40:32,260
I won't go into too many details about them.

646
00:40:32,260 --> 00:40:35,260
But even in China, there's been discoveries
as well,

647
00:40:35,260 --> 00:40:37,260
which kind of stunned a few people.

648
00:40:37,260 --> 00:40:39,260
This one looks pretty spherical, actually.

649
00:40:39,260 --> 00:40:42,260
But there's some brilliant, amazing stonework
in China,

650
00:40:42,260 --> 00:40:46,260
which they're pretty good at, right up to
relatively recently.

651
00:40:46,260 --> 00:40:51,260
But another one I spotted when I was
traveling was this one in San Lorenzo,

652
00:40:51,260 --> 00:40:53,260
which I mentioned earlier, in Mexico.

653
00:40:53,260 --> 00:40:57,260
And this is, although obviously you can see
it's not a perfect sphere,

654
00:40:57,260 --> 00:41:00,260
it's more like a bad sphere, actually.

655
00:41:00,260 --> 00:41:03,260
This Olmec head, on the other hand, is quite
remarkable.

656
00:41:03,260 --> 00:41:09,260
And you can see the intricacy of the
stonework in Mexico does match that of Cos...

657
00:41:09,260 --> 00:41:14,260
And there are suggestions that the connection
between South and Central,

658
00:41:14,260 --> 00:41:17,260
and America, is actually very valid.

659
00:41:17,260 --> 00:41:19,260
The Olmecs did go quite far south.

660
00:41:19,260 --> 00:41:25,260
And the Viracochans or the Tijuanaucans from
South America and Peru, Bolivia, did trave...

661
00:41:25,260 --> 00:41:29,260
And I'm sort of developing various theories
about that.

662
00:41:29,260 --> 00:41:32,260
I've been looking at, obviously last year we
looked at Colombia,

663
00:41:32,260 --> 00:41:35,260
and also Chavin in central North Peru.

664
00:41:35,260 --> 00:41:37,260
And you kind of can't help but notice,

665
00:41:37,260 --> 00:41:41,260
there does seem like a stream of kind of
knowledge and culture

666
00:41:41,260 --> 00:41:44,260
that stretches between these different
countries.

667
00:41:44,260 --> 00:41:49,260
And also just recently, at Teotihuacan in
Mexico,

668
00:41:49,260 --> 00:41:53,260
there's been these strange, what appear may
have been metallic spheres,

669
00:41:53,260 --> 00:41:56,260
have been found in the pyramid of Cucuclán,

670
00:41:56,260 --> 00:42:01,260
the pyramid of Quetzalcoatl, who was the sort
of ancient god of that area.

671
00:42:01,260 --> 00:42:05,260
Not that, you know, fairly close to the Olmec
area.

672
00:42:05,260 --> 00:42:09,260
And so this is literally, like a few weeks
ago, this was being discovered.

673
00:42:09,260 --> 00:42:11,260
And obviously, as we saw last night,

674
00:42:11,260 --> 00:42:14,260
it's just me and Robert posing there,

675
00:42:14,260 --> 00:42:21,260
and this is sort of egg or sphere that have
been removed to this part of Easter Island...

676
00:42:21,260 --> 00:42:24,260
And so we do see this, you know, potentially,

677
00:42:24,260 --> 00:42:28,260
although this is supposed to be like the
naval area of, even though it's on the coast,

678
00:42:28,260 --> 00:42:32,260
this is potentially what we see in other
parts of the Pacific,

679
00:42:32,260 --> 00:42:36,260
which is like these stones they use as
navigational tools.

680
00:42:36,260 --> 00:42:41,260
And also, here's one I found in Quincy,
Massachusetts.

681
00:42:41,260 --> 00:42:44,260
But this is like a modern one, a very modern
one.

682
00:42:44,260 --> 00:42:47,260
It was actually done about 40 years ago, I
think,

683
00:42:47,260 --> 00:42:52,260
and I couldn't help but try and push it off
its pedestal and roll it down the street.

684
00:42:52,260 --> 00:42:55,260
It caused chaos, but I couldn't, I tried.

685
00:42:55,260 --> 00:42:59,260
So even when they're spheres, people think,
oh yeah, you can easily roll them about,

686
00:42:59,260 --> 00:43:03,260
but, you know, they're not that easy to push
around,

687
00:43:03,260 --> 00:43:05,260
even the ones, you know, sitting on the
surface.

688
00:43:05,260 --> 00:43:09,260
Even when they were about this big, you try
and push those about, they're pretty heavy.

689
00:43:09,260 --> 00:43:11,260
But anyway, so that's basically it.

690
00:43:11,260 --> 00:43:14,260
But I want to just make a couple of little
announcements,

691
00:43:14,260 --> 00:43:16,260
because obviously this is Quincy,
Massachusetts.

692
00:43:16,260 --> 00:43:18,260
We're actually going to be doing our
conference there.

693
00:43:18,260 --> 00:43:21,260
We're going to be getting into all these kind
of things,

694
00:43:21,260 --> 00:43:23,260
and Robert's going to be there, John Anthony
West,

695
00:43:23,260 --> 00:43:26,260
and John Martin, I'm just going to be coming
over from England to join us.

696
00:43:26,260 --> 00:43:31,260
And we're going to be, we can go and have a
look at that sphere,

697
00:43:31,260 --> 00:43:34,260
but it is modern, but it's still huge, and
it's a bit like the ones in Costa Rica.

698
00:43:35,260 --> 00:43:37,260
Thank you.

699
00:44:05,260 --> 00:44:07,260
Thank you.

700
00:44:35,260 --> 00:44:38,260
Thank you.