Today, we're going to field some questions sent in by listeners who were not entirely

persuaded by some of my episodes about ancient megalithic sites.

For example, people who insist that the megalithic structures at Puma Puku must have been alien

in origin.

I do notice that none of these people ever seemed to have taken the obvious step of

simply going there and looking at the displays in the visitor center to have all their questions

answered.

While we're talking about that, up next, on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Listener Feedback Ancient Mysteries

Today we're going to answer listener feedback pertaining to Skeptoid episodes about ancient

mysteries, weird structures, strange artifacts, objects from the ancient world that seemed

to defy conventional explanation.

But to the dedicated researcher, it turns out that a science-based explanation does often

already exist.

The basic feedback I get on episodes about ancient mysteries can be paraphrased as,

it seems hard to believe that humans did this, therefore they had helped from aliens.

This is often frustrating, as that's the basic premise my episode was attempting to refute

in the first place.

It's like it fell on deaf ears.

For some reason, which I don't fully understand, many listeners go straight to aliens whenever

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