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The Why Files: Operation Podcast

592: STRIPPED: Proving Atlantis | The Megalithic Yard Mystery

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

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

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 29 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?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thousands of years ago, prehistoric people dragged massive stones for miles.

0:08.0

They arranged them in patterns across Europe, standing in circles, forming rows.

0:13.0

These monuments puzzled researchers for centuries.

0:16.0

Then came Alexander Tom, a Scottish engineer, an Oxford professor obsessed with numbers.

0:22.6

He surveyed hundreds of ancient sites, measured every stone, calculated every angle, and found something impossible.

0:30.6

A single unit of measurement, exactly 2.72 feet. This wasn't random. The same length appeared everywhere.

0:40.3

At sites separated by thousands of miles, built across thousands of years, Tom called it the

0:47.3

megalithic yard. Archaeologists called it nonsense. Stone Age people had no writing, no metal tools,

0:53.3

no advanced mathematics, but the number appeared everywhere, at every major site, in every structure.

1:01.0

This wasn't coincidence. Tom believed he'd found the blueprint of a lost system, a universal ruler connected to the stars, the sun, and the Earth itself.

1:11.6

The system required knowledge these ancient builders shouldn't have possessed.

1:15.6

So if Stone Age people didn't create this technology, who did?

1:21.6

The Alexander Tom was a retired professor of engineering from Oxford University.

1:36.3

He had the best survey equipment available.

1:40.3

On weekends and holidays, he'd load his car with measuring tools, then drive to remote locations,

1:45.8

visit stone circles that had stood for thousands of years.

1:50.4

Tom wasn't looking for artifacts or treasure.

1:53.2

He was looking for patterns.

1:56.0

Over decades of fieldwork, he studied more than 600 megalithic sites across Britain and France.

2:01.6

Then Tom made an extraordinary claim.

2:05.6

These ancient builders were using technology far ahead of their time.

2:10.6

These Neolithic people were thought to be primitive, no writing, no advanced mathematics.

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