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The Adena Enigma: Serpent Mound, Curious Tablets, and the Mound Builder Mythos | MHP 03.30.26.

The Micah Hanks Program

Micah Hanks

Society & Culture, Science

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

America's enigmatic Adena culture, which flourished in the Ohio Valley between roughly 1000 BCE and 200 BCE, is best known for its sophisticated burial practices and monumental earthworks. While much about the Adena is known to modern archaeologists, a number of questions linger about this mysterious ancient culture, the remarkable monuments they left to time, and the curious tablets that have been recovered from famous Adena sites.

This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we are joined by researcher Jason Pentrail to discuss his new two-volume book series Adena: Mound Builders of the Ohio Valley. From Ohio's mysterious Serpent Mound to the controversies associated with finds like the famous tablet retrieved from West Virginia's Grave Creek Mound, we explore many of the great mysteries about one of America's true great "lost" ancient cultures.

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0:00.0

Reports of unidentified flying objects.

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Unidentified aerial phenomena.

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Are they secret weapons being tested by our own or foreign governments?

0:13.0

The American people are becoming most interested and in many instances very alarmed by the UFO stories.

0:19.0

So why do you suppose that all of this has been

0:21.8

kept from the world? Exploring our past, our future, and the mysteries of our universe. Where do they

0:28.2

come from? Why can't you explain it? Everybody in utology is screaming for disclosure. The future is

0:34.0

now. This is Micahanks. From the high mountains of Appalachia in a bunker below ground. Welcome one and all. It is the Micahanks program. Glad as always to be getting into gear and going in pursuit of the great anomalies of our existence, as we do every week, listen on demand via podcasting apps everywhere,

0:55.9

and courtesy of our friends at the Unax Radio Network,

0:59.3

where, by the way, over the weekend, there was a wonderful event going on, the UFO Audit.

1:05.1

I was happy to be able to participate in that at the request of my good friend, Race Hobbs,

1:09.7

and we had an international perspective with contributions from

1:13.0

Tiago Tchetti, from down in Brazil, and also John Burroughs,

1:16.9

and my longtime friend, David Marler, all looking at issues related to the study of

1:22.6

UAP.

1:23.8

Although this week, we're going in a slightly different direction because I have a conversation I have been looking forward to for a long time.

1:32.0

And that's because it features my good friend and colleague, Jason Pentrail, a co-founder, along with yours truly, of the Seven Ages Research Associates.

1:40.1

And this is the archaeological unit that Jason and I have been associated with now for many years,

1:45.3

exploring the mysteries of the ancient past, and occasionally also the controversies like what we heard about last week.

1:51.6

But in this installment, Jason's going to join us to talk about the enduring enigma of America's Adina culture.

1:59.3

And Jason has a brand new two-volume set of books out that talk about not only this

2:03.9

culture, who they were and what they did, but some of their most lasting contributions

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