Ebu Gogo Part 1

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

2003 a team of archaeologists have come to a Liang Bua, a remote cave. Once inside t they uncover something unexpected, bones of a hominoid which would have stood under a meter and a half tall. Dubbed Homo Floresiensis the discovery rocks the world of anthropology and human evolution to its core. The world is surprised by the discovery but not the people who live on Flores at the edges of the dense jungle, they’ve known the tiny ape-men since time, for them, began, they call them Ebu Gogo, and according to these people it may still be out there.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's happening? This is late night Vincent, uh, 248 in the morning, Vincent, coming to you to, uh, tell you that this is going to be a multi-part episode, not even a two-parter. I think we're going to do a lot of parts to this one. We went really long on this one. And I think it's actually shaping up to be one of my most favorite episodes. That may not be your taste,
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0:25.3	crazy hominid anthropology cryptids in this episode. So, please listen on. Don't be deterred. So please
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1:32.0	So I'm so excited to share with you guys the episode that we've put together about the Ebu Gogo. It's late 2003, and a joint team of Australian and Indonesian archaeologists searching for evidence of human migration have come to Liennbua, a remote cave which requires climbing gear to reach after a long
2:04.7	trek through dangerous jungles. Once inside the cave, they uncover something wholly unexpected.
2:11.6	These are bones, not fossils, bones of a humanoid, a human relative, which would have stood under a meter and a half
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