592: Proving Atlantis | The Megalithic Yard Mystery (STRIPPED)

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

Science, Life Sciences, Fiction, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science Fiction

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Thousands of years ago, ancient cultures across Europe built massive stone structures with extraordinary precision. Scottish engineer Alexander Thom discovered these sites all used the same exact unit of measurement: 2.72 feet, which he called the Megalithic Yard.

This measurement appeared everywhere, from Stonehenge to the Scottish Isles, at sites separated by thousands of miles and built across thousands of years. These structures weren't just monuments - they were sophisticated machines that tracked celestial movements with astonishing accuracy.

How did ancient people without writing or advanced tools achieve such mathematical precision? Why does this measurement connect to fundamental constants of the universe? And most puzzling: why did they suddenly stop building these structures?

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1:02.9	Thousands of years ago, prehistoric people dragged massive stones for miles.
1:08.3	They arranged them in patterns across Europe, standing in circles, forming rows.
1:12.6	These monuments puzzled researchers for centuries.
1:16.6	Then came Alexander Tom, a Scottish engineer, an Oxford professor obsessed with numbers.
1:22.6	He surveyed hundreds of ancient sites, measured every stone, calculated every angle, and found
1:29.6	something impossible.
1:31.3	A single unit of measurement, exactly 2.72 feet.
1:35.9	This wasn't random.
1:37.5	The same length appeared everywhere.
1:40.8	At sites separated by thousands of miles, built across thousands of years, Tom called it the megalithic yard.
1:48.8	Archaeologists called it nonsense.
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