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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

CLASSIC: The Mystery of the Kensington Runestone

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.211K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Could a mysterious slab of stone near Kensington, Minnesota hold the key to a forgotten piece of ancient history? According to the true believers, this stone, discovered in the late 1800s, proves that Vikings made it deep into the interior of North America in the 1300s -- only to disappear soon afterward, leaving no trace but a grisly story carved in runes upon the stone. Tune in to learn more.

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0:00.0

Fellow conspiracy realist, we want to talk about runes with you today.

0:07.1

Not the Elder Scroll Rooms, not the Eldon Ring ruins, but the Kensington Roons.

0:17.7

This is cool stuff.

0:19.8

I'm remembering this episode as I take a look at some of the information

0:24.1

here and this is one of those things uh find an artifact that doesn't it appears to be out

0:31.9

of place right it's there shouldn't be this type of writing in this place from this time? Strange. But for today's

0:41.4

episode, we're going to Minnesota. Oh, yeah, yeah. Classic Viking territory, right? This is the

0:49.0

idea that what modern historians call the Vikings made it way past Newfoundland into the interior of what we call the United States.

1:01.8

And they did it way back in the 1300s, and they left absolutely no trace except for a mysterious slab of stone.

1:12.6

This is an I-Heart podcast, guaranteed human.

1:17.6

From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained

1:23.6

events.

1:24.1

You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.

1:29.6

A production of IHeart Radio.

1:41.7

Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Noel.

1:46.5

They call me Ben. We are joined, as always, with our super producer, Paul Mission Control Deccant.

1:52.2

Most importantly, you are you, you are here, and that makes this stuff they don't want you to know.

1:59.5

As we've explored in previous episodes, our species knows roughly when and how human beings

2:07.4

first reached the continent we know of as North America, but we still continue to search

2:12.7

for more concrete.

2:15.2

This is going to be such a horrible pun later, answers about who these people were.

2:20.4

And as most of our fellow conspiracy realists know, many of the things children are taught about in North American history

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