It was found sealed in a cave in a remote, rugged part of Wyoming.

Might have remained there forever.

They could have built a Bucky's gas station and a day's in right next door.

Never known they had a neighbor.

It took a stroke of luck and a bundle of dynamite to find it.

But what was it? Or the better question might. But what was it?

Or the better question might be, who was it?

Evidence of a lost ancient race,

proof of extraterrestrial visitation,

an elaborate hoax staged by a prankster capable of moving a mountain.

And they got a small beam of light against the mirror.

True. stuff.

Most of us grew up believing that the North American continent was a vast empty wilderness before we'll pick one, the Vikings landed, or Christopher Columbus, or the Puritans, or the

pilgrims even.

We'll be charitable and called this idea we grew up with a myth instead of a lie.

Because the truth is, humans have called North America home since the last ice age.

At the White Sands National Park in New Mexico, footprints found preserved in ancient mud-turned alkalized sand have been dated

at somewhere between 21,000 and 23,000 years old. For as much as we know, being the clever

primates we are, we actually don't know very much at all about our origins. And we know even less about others like us.

Hominid cousins who once dominated their worlds, then slipped into memory, becoming fossils

and artifacts for us to collect and study. What we lack in hard facts about the prehistoric

peoples we make up for in legends.

...