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🗓️ 31 July 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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The story has all the makings of a science-fiction blockbuster: in 1937, an intrepid archaeologist discovers hundreds of perfectly-engraved stones, surrounded by humanoid remains and carved maps of constellations. Later analysis reveals these stones are 12,000 years old, and tell the story of ancient aliens crash-landing on Earth. This is the tale of the 'Dropa Stones.' In tonight's episode, Ben and Noel ask: Is any part of this story true?
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0:00.0 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies history is riddled with unexplained events. |
0:07.0 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
0:12.0 | A production of I-Heart Radio. |
0:17.0 | Hello and welcome back to the show my name is Noel. |
0:27.0 | Our colleague Matt is on Adventures hopefully will send us some photographs of him on a boat he will be returning soon they call me |
0:35.8 | Ben we're joined as always with our super producer Paul Mission Control |
0:40.0 | deck and most importantly you are you, you are here. That makes this, the stuff they don't want you to know. |
0:48.3 | Uh, Noel, do you remember when we got, we went through our anti-Kethara mechanism phase. |
0:55.0 | I think everyone had one of those, you know. |
0:58.0 | Right next there's like pokey, poggs, |
1:00.0 | Pokemon, and then an anti-Kethm mechanism in order of like a historical precedent. |
1:05.7 | It's weird because history is full of incredibly strange things so much so that you and I made an entirely different show all |
1:16.8 | about ridiculous events places and people we're fans of the weird stuff. |
1:21.3 | Surely Anticothea mechanism has come up on ridiculous history at some point or another. |
1:27.0 | If anyone needs a quick reminder, just like a bizarro device that seemingly way ahead of its time, you know, historically that was discovered |
1:36.0 | and no one quite knew what it was for or what it did. |
1:39.8 | And I believe the jury is still kind of out. |
1:42.0 | It's almost like a, I don't know what you might |
1:43.9 | picture like an Indiana Jones time travel relic looking like you know in fact if I'm |
1:48.6 | not mistaken isn't that wasn't that part of the plot for the current Indiana |
1:53.2 | general. Isn't the Dial of Destiny as depicted sort of |
1:56.3 | takes some inspiration from the Anticathera mechanism? |
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