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Shattered Souls

Thinking Sideways: Carnac Stones

Shattered Souls

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education

4.34.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2013

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Stones of Carnac--a vast arrangement of menhirs in lines thousands of meters long, the purpose of the stones is an ancient mystery: necropolis? Calendar? Astronomical guide? Another mystery is the fate of the society that built them, which vanished without a trace.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Steve here. You are listening to one of our original 26 episodes. If you've

0:05.9

listened to any of our new episodes, you're going to notice that we're sounding a little

0:09.6

different in these ones. Yeah, there's a reason for that. There is. They've been remastered.

0:13.8

They have been remastered. Because they had a really annoying hum. Yeah, I mean, a huge

0:18.6

thanks to listener James for doing almost all of the legwork on this thing. Yes, yes.

0:23.1

You'll also notice if you had listened to what we're calling the last 26 episodes before

0:28.0

and you're re-listening now, the music and sound effects are gone. Yes, we've gone back

0:33.3

to straight audio. So, be warned. We sound a little different today than we do in what

0:37.6

you're about to listen to. Yeah. Bye. Bye.

0:40.9

Yeah. Thinking sideways. I don't understand.

0:48.6

You never know. What? Stories of things we simply don't know the answer to.

0:58.6

All right, well, hello folks. Welcome. This is Thinking sideways. My name is Joe. I'm

1:07.0

Steve. Hey, I'm talking all over each other here. We're really good at this.

1:12.2

So, yes, I don't need to explain what we do for many millions of fans, but there are maybe

1:16.6

a few who are just tuning in. So, we're going to talk about mysterious stuff. Tonight, we're

1:21.2

going to talk about rocks. Yeah. I'm going to talk about a special, a special bunch of rocks

1:28.4

in Brittany, the south of France called the Carnac Stones. The Carnac Stones are just thousands

1:33.9

of stones laid out and very large stones, I might add, laid out and mysterious rows that are

1:40.5

like over a kilometer long in some instances. And 10, 10 stones wide, these stones are called

1:46.6

men here. So, they are, which are, we need standing stones. And they vary between several feet high

1:52.5

to 15 feet high. Wow. And yeah, 10 stones wide over a kilometer long, 100 meters wide,

2:00.4

1100 meters in some, and change long. So, we're just saying, like, so some guy in the Brittany

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