In this episode of Haunted Cosmos,

you discover that Nicholas Cage movies are canon for American history,

that Ben grievously injured his back on the hunt for Solomon's minds in North America,

and the secrets of the Grand Canyon.

The world is not just stuff.

Minus 111.9.

The widely publicized mystery of the flying saucers may soon be solved.

The people who once lived here are called the Anasazi, the old ones. They quit these parts,

routed by drought or disease or by wandering bands of marauders, quit these parts ages since,

and of them there is no memory. They are rumors and ghosts in this land, and they are much revered.

The tools, the art, the building, these things stand in judgment on the latter races.

Excerpt from Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. The high desert sun beat hard down. It burned the

skin on the back of Kincaid's neck until little

boils of rash formed. It looked very much like his blood was boiling inside of him, but he didn't care.

He didn't care because of the excitement of what lay before him. A ribbon of rushing water

tinted blue and green and the absolute freedom to explore it as he would.

The blistering sun was no match for the cold waters of the Colorado that rose up to mist

his sun-baked face. This, along with the breeze that struck him as he entered the vast,

shaded regions of the cliffs that towered above him, even set a shiver down his spine.

The water demanded his focus, and he loved it for that.

Thus it was that G.E. Kincaid charged headlong down the Colorado River

through the deepest heart of the Grand Canyon in search of that flighty tempterous adventure.

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