Christine Z. Mason: Mystery of the Ancient Stone City of Nan Madol

Earth Ancients

Cliff Dunning

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2020

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

An ancient mystery, an astounding discovery, a medicine man with magical powers--a girl, her brother, and an intriguing island boy on a perilous trek through the jungle . . . The Mystery of the Ancient Stone City

Thirteen-year-old Sidney Jacobsen thought that when she flew to a remote Pacific island to live with her family for a year, she would be living in a beautiful native-style home in a tropical paradise. She also wanted to solve one of the greatest mysteries of all time--who built the ancient, enormous stone city of Nan Madol on the island, over a thousand years ago? Giants? Powerful creatures from another planet?

To her dismay, when Sid, her father, and her eleven-year-old brother Peter arrive on Pohnpei, they find that the conditions are more horrifying than they'd ever imagined, and that Nan Madol is off-limits to outsiders. Frightening intruders are sent by the Nanmarki, the King of Nan Madol, to scare Peter and Sid away from the mysterious ruins of the stone city. Then fourteen-year-old islander Jabro takes them on a boat trip that turns into a struggle for survival in the jungle. When they enter the forbidden and sacred burial ground in the stone city, they make a thrilling discovery. Challenged by physical threats as well as their own doubts and fears, the three adventurers must now find a way to return to their island home, while mustering the courage to keep secret the amazing discoveries they have made at Nan Madol.

Christine Z. Mason has served in the Peace Corps, teaching Art and Photography at the Community College of Micronesia on Pohnpei, Eastern Caroline Islands, the setting for The Mystery of the Ancient Stone City. She is a former attorney and currently a novelist and short story writer. She is the author of two novels for adults: Boundaries: A Love Story and Weighing the Truth. She lives in the Santa Cruz mountains in California.

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0:00.0	There are so many mysteries around the world and this week we head to the Pacific Ocean and the unusual island of Nan Madal.
0:09.0	Now this is a strange place simply because it is a fortress made from 20 ton basalt logs that are stacked
0:20.1	like a log cabin.
0:22.3	We don't know who built them. Eric Von Donagen believes that the
0:27.0	fortresses were made by ancient aliens. I tend to disagree and believe it's an ancient earth culture that is long gone.
0:36.6	But today we'll hear from Dr. Mark Carlatto on just how old the buildings are and
0:42.4	also from a research investigator who's been there up close
0:46.8	and personal and will give us her view on this enigma that nobody has an explanation for.
0:55.0	Later, Jindeo takes us to the state of Nevada.
0:59.4	And rock art that's been dated to over 15,000 years old. We don't know who the nomads were.
1:08.0	There's odd beings with huge eyes and strange bodies, and it's dated thousands of years before our written history.
1:17.0	All this in the news today on Earth Ancients. Please go and
1:35.0	and be able to be in a way. For Saturday, March 7th, 2020, this is Earth Ancients. I'm your host, Cliff Dunning.
2:05.0	Hey, how are ya? Welcome to Earth Ancients.
2:06.0	This is Cliff, your host, and I hope you're doing well.
2:10.0	This is the week of the trip. This is our Mexico tour. It's coming up in a day or two, so I will be leaving and I am really looking forward to my time in Ukatan, Mexico for, well obviously a number of reasons,
2:28.0	one being that I love going down there and visiting friends and seeing the sites and there's always
2:37.7	something that's been opened. I've mentioned in the past that whenever I go to a Mayan site, especially in Yucatan, I'm always
2:47.1	a little frustrated because I've been going down there since 1995.
2:52.2	It's just they're really slow at excavating newer parts of known areas.
2:58.0	As an example, Chechenica, which is the main site, has the main pyramid al-Kastilo, and the other surrounding buildings,
3:07.0	they've been there for, Jesus, 60, 70 years since they were excavated.
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