From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.

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My name is Matt.

My name is Noel.

They call me Ben.

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That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.

Previously, on stuff they don't want you to know, we dove deep into one of

histories enduring mysteries, the idea of something called the Anunaki.

What did we walk away with in chapter one of that exploration?

Well, we came away with a lot of the myths that were surrounding this part of the world

at a very specific time. And we were talking far, far, far BCE. Do we have a

time frame for when the Anunaki Sumerian gods were roaming around? Yeah, it was like before numbers

were a concept. Yes, exactly, precisely, a long, long, long, long time ago, where these kinds of stories were, you know, originally told, right? And that's how a lot of these stories go. And then as we've said before about all these kinds of myths and ancient concepts, a lot of it is passed down orally before it becomes finally written down and maybe finds its way into a great tale of some sort,

like an epic, perhaps?

Yes, a narrative, a myth, a shared story.

We mentioned a lot of this in our first chapter of our exploration of the Anunaki.

And look, if we're going to be honest, folks, the Anunaki went through a lot of what

studio execs these days would call rebranding, right?

You know, the Samarian civilization had one pitch, the Acadian civilization had another, the Assyrians

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