The Georgia Guidestones are a mysterious and massive granite emplacement built by an anonymous

person with inscriptions that would seem to advocate a globalist agenda, including the

annihilation of most of the world's population. Conspiracy theories about its intended meaning,

and who put it there, abound. Today, we're going to get to the bottom of this controversial

monument. The Georgia Guidestones are coming up right now, unskeptoid.

Hey everyone, Brian here. A quick favor. We are conducting an audience survey. We'd be really

grateful if you could take just a few minutes and answer our survey. This is the kind of thing that's

sort of an engineering and marketing necessity to make the whole free podcast ecosystem flourish. So

please check it out. Also, surveys are fun. You get to talk about yourself. Please visit

survey.prx.org slash scaptoid to take the survey today. That's survey.prx.org slash

S-K-E-P-T-O-I-D. Thanks.

You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com. The Georgia Guidestones.

On a hilltop in rural Elberton, Georgia stands an incongruous monument,

119 tons of imposing granite in five columns, six meters high, topped with a capstone.

Not only are they geometrically arranged, they also offer three astronomical viewing ports,

marking the positions of the sun and stars, thus their nickname America's Stonehenge.

But unlike their English namesake, the Georgia Guidestones are not ancient. They're a recent

emplacement. Their most significant trait is the controversial inscriptions in eight languages.

Some feel the messages in these inscriptions unite us. Others feel they divide us.

The monument refers to these ten mortos as the guiding thoughts offered to the world by the

anonymous builders of the monument. The ten guiding thoughts are...

...maintain humanity under 500 million in perpetual balance with nature. Guide reproduction wisely,

...