Fact Check: Grand Canyon Egyptian Cave Discovery – A Century-Old Hoax?
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2 verified, 2 misleading, 3 false, 1 unverifiable out of 8 claims analyzed
The video presents a classic conspiracy theory built upon a century-old newspaper hoax. The core claim, that explorers found an Egyptian-style underground city with giant mummies in the Grand Canyon in 1909, is overwhelmingly rejected by mainstream archaeology and history. The sole evidence is a pair of articles from the Arizona Gazette, which are widely regarded as fabricated, likely to sell newspapers. The Smithsonian has explicitly denied any association with the explorers or the discovery.
The video then amplifies this narrative by weaving in unrelated and unsubstantiated claims: giant mummies, anomalous stones, Japanese UFO encounters, and a hollow Earth theory. Each of these sub-claims is either false (like the giant mummies) or unverifiable (like the viral cave videos). The video relies heavily on suggestive editing, vague references to 'some researchers,' and amateur YouTube clips to create a sense of mystery.
While the video correctly notes that the Hopi have deep spiritual connections to the Grand Canyon, it misrepresents their traditions to fit the narrative. Overall, the video's score of 26 reflects its heavy reliance on unverified, sensational, and often discredited material. It presents a mix of a few verified historical facts (like Roosevelt's 1908 proclamation) within a framework of entirely speculative and false assertions.
Claims analysis
In 1908, President Roosevelt wanted to declare the Grand Canyon off-limits to all timber and mining operations.
In 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt used the Antiquities Act to declare the Grand Canyon a National Monument, protecting it from mining and timber operations.
G.E. Kincaid and Professor S.A. Jordan were archaeologists working for the Smithsonian.
The Smithsonian Institution has repeatedly stated they have no record of either G.E. Kincaid or S.A. Jordan being employed or associated with them as archaeologists for this expedition.
The Arizona Gazette published two articles in 1909 about Kincaid's discovery.
The Arizona Gazette did publish articles on March 12 and April 5, 1909, describing Kincaid's journey and a supposed cave discovery with artifacts and hieroglyphs. However, the articles are widely considered a hoax or fabrication.
The cave contained Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The 1909 article reported finding hieroglyphics, but no credible archaeological evidence exists to support this. The claim is considered a hoax, as no verified artifacts or copies of the supposed writing have ever been produced.
Giant humanoid mummies were found in the cave.
The claim of giant mummies is a common trope in pseudoscience and folklore. No scientifically documented evidence of such mummies in the Grand Canyon exists. The 1909 article presents this as a fantastical detail, not supported by any subsequent discovery.
The Hopi tribe has stories about ancestors living in an underground city in the Grand Canyon.
While the Hopi have sacred stories and traditions about their origins and the Grand Canyon, the specific claim of an 'underground city' matching the Kincaid description is not part of traditional Hopi narratives. The reference is a modern extrapolation.
The Euphrates River drying up revealed a mysterious cave with howling sounds.
Viral videos claiming a cave with ghostly sounds appeared as the Euphrates dried up in 2022. These videos lack provenance and archaeological verification. The sounds are likely digitally added or misidentified natural phenomena.
Underground tunnels and chambers exist beneath the Sphinx, and they are forbidden.
Seismic surveys have identified cavities under the Sphinx, and some small chambers are known. However, the claim of a vast, secret, forbidden tunnel network is exaggerated. Many such areas are restricted for conservation, not concealment.
Known as one of the most mysterious and beautiful [music] places in the world, the Grand Canyon is visited by thousands
of tourists [music] every single day. It is one of the most studied landscapes in the world with extensive fossil records
[music] and a multitude of geological features and rich archaeological history. In 1908, President Roosevelt
wanted to declare the Grand Canyon off-limits to all timber and mining operations. And feeling that this could
be a final opportunity to explore minerals like gold, silver, and copper, explorer and researcher G.E. Kincaid
took a boat down the Colorado River. He wanted to see if he could find something in the area before it was
completely closed off to the public. So, G.E. Kincaid and Professor S.A. Jordan, both explorers and supposed
archaeologists working for the Smithsonian, set off to the Colorado River to explore the Grand Canyon.
About 42 miles upstream from the El Tovar Crystal Canyon and 2,000 ft [music] up the canyon wall, G.E. Kincaid
and S.A. Jordan spotted what appeared to be some sort of stairway that led to a huge cave. And at this point, they did
what anyone searching for minerals and gold would do, and they went inside the cave. Now, this is where things take a
turn and become really, really strange. According to Kincaid, the entrance to the cave was described as a tunnel-like
passageway that was large enough to accommodate several people walking side by side. He also describes that 60 ft
into the entrance, you'll find branching off to the right and left of the cave a number of rooms the size of living rooms
that have these oval-shaped entrances and ventilation systems. Little by little, Kinkade and S.A.
Jordan started realizing that whatever it was that they found was possibly some sort of ancient underground city, just
like the ones we see in Turkey and many other places throughout the world. [music]
But it doesn't stop there. They went even further, and they found what appeared to be some sort of cross hall,
several hundred feet long, and sitting in the middle of it, some sort of huge statue that resembled a Buddha statue
with a lotus flower in each hand. >> [music] >> From now on, there are a couple of
branches to this story, and one of them states that [music] Kinkade and S.A. Jordan returned from their exploration
to pass this information over to the Smithsonian to gather more men to actually explore this underground city
being that it was huge. Now, according to this article that was published in the 1900s by the Arizona
Gazette, G.E. Kinkade and S.A. Jordan returned to the cave now with an expedition backed up by the Smithsonian
and financed by S.A. Jordan himself, they go deeper into the cave. And what they found would completely shatter
absolutely everything we know about human history. According to the article itself, they
found copper tools, including knives, spears, and other objects. >> [music]
>> They also found, carved into the cave walls, what looked like Egyptian hieroglyphs, which would make no sense
being that they were in the Grand Canyon, United States. There was also a perfectly polished
granite stairway that led deeper into the cave, and it was perfectly smooth as if it had been carved with some sort of
advanced technology. >> [music] >> Oh my god, what happened?
What's that? What is going on? >> [music]
>> Oh my god. What is going on? Oh, it's a Oh! Oh,
it's going to pop. >> [music] [music]
>> Oh my actual god. >> And by going even deeper into the cave, this is most likely the reason, if the
story is true, why it was covered up. Upon reaching one of the largest
chambers, they found what looked like several holes on the walls that appeared to be slanting back at an angle of about
35 degrees. And inside these holes, they found what appeared to be giant humanoid mummies.
Now, it's very important to state that this fantastic story may actually be just a hoax. However, it was indeed
published by the Arizona Gazette in 1909 in two different articles. The first article was published on March
12th, 1909 with the title G.E. Kincaid reaches Yuma. And it was a short but interesting announcement that Kincaid
was the only second person to make this boat trip down the entire course of the Colorado River.
24 days later on April 5th, 1909, the newspaper ran a follow-up story to their first article except that this time it
was a full front-page coverage on the discoveries that G.E. Kincaid had made in the Grand Canyon.
However, things take a very strange twist when you go over to the Smithsonian and try to call them to get
more information on G.E. Kincaid and S.A. Jordan. Many people have done so after this article was published. I
mean, you can imagine why. And the Smithsonian always says, very politely, that no, there is no record of Kincaid
or any archaeological finding regarding an Egyptian cave of some sort in the Grand Canyon.
But here's where things take a really strong turn and become stranger and even more mysterious than everything that
I've told you until now. After researching a bit about the topic, I found a very interesting article in
CNY Artifact Recovery posted on January 2, 2014 that states, "S.A. Jordan was actually
sent to the Grand Canyon by the Smithsonian to investigate the information that was reported by John
Wesley Powell." So, this would quickly explain all the confusion why G.E. Kincaid and S.A.
Jordan are not listed under the Smithsonian. It's a dead end.
And doing a quick research on John Wesley Powell, you'll find that Major John Wesley Powell was actually first
director of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian from its founding in 1879.
He was also in the US Army and former director of the United States Geological Survey. But there's more. [music]
In 1870, he was the first American to lead an expedition throughout the Grand Canyon to scientifically investigate the
Colorado River. So this man might actually have found something there that G.E. Kincaid and
S.A. Jordan got interested in. Gold, minerals, or maybe something else. Not only that, the Hopi tribe has
already talked about the possibility of their ancestors at some point in time living in an underground city in the
Grand Canyon. >> The Popol Vuh, which is the origin point, our ancestors inhabited previous
worlds before this one. >> This cave was home to a race
of people who would
take anybody prisoner who enters the cave. And one such story, a native called Anzick
who was an elder of the tribe told him of two maids
who entered the cave and were never seen again. Finally, after many years
they emerged. And they told how they were taken into this beautiful
world. So the deeper we dig, the stranger it gets. But it gets even stranger if we start to analyze why
there was a need to cover this story up. I would probably focus on two main points in this story.
And one of them is the giant humanoid mummies and the Egyptian hieroglyphs and artifacts that were found inside the
cave. They don't add up, but they would be a good reason to cover the story up
entirely. For instance, the giant mummies. Either they were some sort of alien reptilian
race of some sort or they were indeed giant humanoid beings. And there is evidence to [music] support
maybe well maybe there were alien races that occupied Earth in a very distant past.
>> There's a whole realm [music] of what I would call machining marks that exist all over these sites in Egypt. There's a
place called Abusir that's been closed to the public for more than 100 years. You have to get special permission to go
there. It's one of >> [music] [music]
>> And there is also evidence to support [music] that at some point there were possibly giant humanoid beings living
amongst us. >> Start with this scene and we look at what we're looking at here. They're
holding some type of structure with a snake inside. What is this? Now, we're told that these beings represent
the very ancient dynastic commissions. So, even though they're wearing dynastic headdresses, ancient commissions are
represented here. These are the dynastic people, smaller. They're just observing what was already here. Now, notice here
nicely. This has been described first by Christopher Dunn
as a Crookes tube, perhaps an electrical bulb. It seems to be working well. This is the Djed pillar. Supposed to
represent the backbone of of wizard of Osiris. But here it looks like it's what somebody said a condenser because it's
working with electricity and again we're not talking wireless electricity cuz it is plugged in.
Plugged in. Now we switch to the other wall and we look what's seen is over here again.
And this is very important symbol. This cuz it's supposed to be ancient commission. He's holding the bow but
here the snake is being deflected. We have a creature here. We don't know what this creature is but the important thing
is what the texts say. This is a warning. A warning that this is a knowledge, a power that can be abused.
But again, these are just theories but I'm going to show you guys some of the videos that supports this evidence.
>> Queridos amigos, muchas gracias a vosotros. Gracias. >> What you're about to hear is real. My
name is not too important. The information that I'm about to tell you is extremely important. I was an
intelligence specialist with the United States. Since then, if you watch my other
videos, you realize that strange things have started to happen to my body.
If you remember, my eye has started to get more of a slit and a rip
or I guess snake eye appearance. If you look at my other videos or one of them I'm right here, you can actually see up
close [music] what my eye looks like. If you remember, my body in certain areas, like for example,
look at my elbows on both sides, I'm growing additional limbs. My hands,
my thumbs, they're extending and growing too. The thing is throughout the years, people
have been observing certain videos that show some of these shape-shifting humanoids.
Sometimes it just doesn't make sense and and other times I would say that the videos are completely fake.
But who knows? Maybe this was what Kincaid and S. A. Jordan had found inside that cave when they told about
these giant mummies that they found. If this is the case, it would understandably be a very good reason to
cover all this story up. Now, on another note, if this isn't the case about the reptilians and all that,
it could actually be giant humanoid beings that were found inside the cave. There are certain videos out there that
you'll find that may actually prove the existence of giants occupying Earth in a very distant past.
>> [music] >> Some of these footprints in Africa and Indonesia and other archaeological
artifacts just scream out giant. Also in 2017, ancient remains of 5,000-year-old giants
were discovered in China. For instance, in this video posted by DJ Duda Linares not very long ago, we can
see what appears to be a giant humanoid figure inside of a cave in Mexico in Cabo San Lucas.
At a certain point, I would say that some of these archaeological finds and giant footprints and whatnot may just be
just a coincidence and in other cases it could actually represent some sort of evidence that maybe there were giant
humanoids in a certain point in the past. Not to mention myths, stories, and legends from tribes and people all over
the world who tell of encounters with these giant humanoid beings. Who knows if some of them are based on
true stories, but it might actually explain what G.E. Kinkaid and S.A. Jordan found that day on that cave.
Now, when it comes to the Egyptian artifacts and hieroglyphs, this is where things get really strange.
In a quick search, you'll find that there are Egyptian hieroglyphs that were found spread out throughout the world in
places they weren't supposed to exist. And it's the case with the Australian Egyptian hieroglyphs that were found.
Brian Foerster and many other explorers talk about these Australian Egyptian hieroglyphs.
>> Greetings from Australia. We're near Sydney, actually closer to a town called Gosford. Well, I find this
site absolutely amazing. What's impressive is not only that it's been
translated by Youssef Awyan and Mohammed Ibrahim, who are again Egyptian experts.
So, the idea that the lichen build-up and the the fact that the surface is the same
shade as the indentation means that this is of a significant age. Much I would guess much older than 100
years or something made by somebody in the 1930s. >> And all there's several people that are
interested Egyptians any proof of Egyptians in Utah was told to me by
I'll just use first name uh friend of mine named Scott uh told me the story. Said
uh up in Morgan County and uh they were deer hunting went up uh Smith Creek and uh deer hunting and actually went
over the top of the mountain so they were coming down onto the Davis County side. They ran into some ruins
uh in the brush and it's just the rock foundation. Well, it was described to me as looking like
uh a a grave stone or a grave marker a large one that was kind of heart-shaped on the top.
Um this uh large rock in the middle of the building had Egyptian writing on it.
>> Now, when it comes to the Egyptian artifacts that were supposedly found by G.E. Kincaid and S.A. Jordan inside that
cave, I can see a couple of reasons why it would have been covered up. For instance, what if some of these
artifacts were of some sort of technology that they couldn't comprehend at the time?
>> That is not like airplane. Why the is it so close? What
the actual is that? >> Just to give an example, a couple of
years ago I featured several videos of what's supposed to be a mysterious Egyptian stone that has special powers
or features that to this day no one knows exactly how to explain. For instance, it doesn't reflect on a
mirror, it interferes with electronic devices and it kind of boils water and reacts to
water in strange ways. There's also a couple of magnetic anomalies that aren't quite easy to explain.
Now, at first, if you read a bit about the topic and do some digging around, you'll find a couple of articles that
state that most of these stones are actually fake, and that these videos have the sole purpose of selling these
stones on eBay and on the internet to make some easy money on people. And I don't doubt it. There are so many fake
things nowadays being sold online that who knows. But even so, it doesn't explain how
these videos are being made. It may just be that it's not simple CGI or special effects. It may actually be that someone
has a hold of these stones. Not only that, in most videos, sometimes featured by different people all over the world,
you see the stones presenting the same properties all over. So, I don't know. It could be the real deal.
Whatever this thing is, it could be what Kinkade and SA Jordan found that day inside that cave. And it would be a
really good reason to cover the whole thing up. Not only that, it could explain how the
Egyptians built the pyramids, the megaliths, and many other strange structures that to this day no one knows
exactly how they were made. And to my surprise, a couple of months ago, I actually received a video from
one of my subscribers of what's supposed to be an Egyptian pyramid that [music] was found in the
Grand Canyon through Google Earth. And this is the video. >> Right there.
Terrain off. Terrain on. Whatever it is that Koga and J. A. Crew
found, it really does look like a pyramid. If you take a look, it even has the layers that look like the Egyptian
pyramids. But, I'm not too sure. It could be just a coincidence. Not only that, several researchers and
books written about the Grand [music] Canyon mystery state at some point how weird-looking the Temple of Osiris is in
[music] the Grand Canyon. Not to mention that several caves and locations have been completely
restricted to the general public for some reason. So, either the Kincaid story is one of
the biggest hoaxes ever created by the Arizona Gazette or it's one of the biggest cover-ups
[music] in human history. But, I'll leave that up to you guys. What do you think about all of this?
>> [music] >> When we delve into the mysteries of our past, we uncover a world filled with
enigmatic wonders. One captivating notion suggests that in earlier eras, our planet was inhabited
by creatures of extraordinary size and stature. Some of the creatures that we still see
today in our world, such as crocodiles, snakes, and even armadillos, they were absolutely massive, but
they're not so big nowadays. So, what happened? It seems that in the distant past,
various factors, including higher oxygen levels and unique environmental conditions,
could have created the ideal place for the growth of colossal organisms. Trees, birds, turtles,
these things were much more massive in a distant past than they are today. So, one has to wonder, what if there
were also giant humanoid creatures of some sort? And is there any evidence of such a
thing? I guess that one of the oldest records of the existence, or the possible
existence of giants amongst us, was the Epic of Gilgamesh, a story that was written about 4 to 5,000 years ago.
Now, the epic portrays Gilgamesh as a very powerful and very tall king, the king of Uruk, a region nowadays known as
Iraq. Now, Gilgamesh was mostly known to be a 5-m tall fearless man.
A man who built a gigantic wall around Uruk. And while there is no definite
historical records confirming his existence, in the 1800s, British explorer William Loftus actually
excavated remains of what's supposed to be Uruk. Suggesting that it did exist about 4 to 5,000 years ago.
But it's not just the Epic of Gilgamesh that portrays giants. From Norse mythology to the American Indian tribes,
you'll find that similar stories are told in different periods of time by different nations throughout the world.
Well, let's just say that maybe giants did exist in the past. There should be more evidence, at least
more than just myths and legends. And maybe there is. If we start taking a closer look into
ancient megalithic constructions, there's so much about it that we still don't know to this day.
In ancient Egypt, we have the pyramids and many other megalithic constructions that to this day no one knows exactly
how they were built. Some of these stones weigh more than hundreds of tons and they are not local
stones. >> And again, it's believed that the boxes themselves weigh
how much? >> 70 ton for the box and 30 ton for the lid. So, the total of 100 ton
for the box and the lid. >> And this is not local stone. >> No, this is not local stone.
>> Where was it brought from, do you think? >> Not closer than Aswan, which is 1,000 km from here.
>> People would have to travel thousands of kilometers just to get these stones where they are today.
How was it done that long ago? Well, no one knows. There are many theories, of course, but
none proven. The same with the statues located in the Eastern Island. Some of these statues weigh around 80
tons and are more than 10 m tall. It's big. And there are many of them. How did they get there? And who do they
represent? I mean, it's a really small island in the middle of nowhere.
How? In Japan, there are also many strange megalithic constructions.
For example, in 1987, a local diver exploring off the coast of Japan's Ryukyu Islands stumbled across a
startling discovery. What looked like a gigantic underwater pyramid was spotted 25 m below the
surface. Known today as the Yonaguni Monument, this massive construction is one of the
world's most unusual underwater sites. Nicknamed Japan's Atlantis, the rectangular pyramid-like monument is
believed to be at least 10,000 years old. Now, I could go on for hours talking
about these megalithic constructions. There's also Stonehenge, the Ellora Caves system. There's also the
mysterious megalithic site of Gunung Padang in Indonesia. [music] Now, what's very curious about Gunung
Padang is that in 2018, Indonesian scientists presented data to make their case that maybe Gunung Padang
is in fact one of the world's oldest known pyramid-like structures. The research, which has been conducted
over the course of several years, suggests that Gunung Padang is not just a hill as we think it is, but is
actually a layered series of ancient structures with foundations dating back to some 10,000 years ago or maybe even
more. But Gunung Padang isn't the only place where you'll find these mysterious rocks
sort of laying around in an organized pattern. There's one place in Nigeria in Africa,
one that most people don't even know exists, called Dutsen Mamaki, and it really looks a little bit like Gunung
Padang. But all this could be just a big coincidence, couldn't it?
If it weren't for the fact that in some of these megalithic sites, you'll not only find giant [music] footprints
laying around, but also depictions and sometimes hieroglyphs of giant humanoid figures
walking amongst humans. This might actually suggest that something happened in the past,
something that we're not being told about. >> When we talk about mysterious places in
this world, I immediately stop to think about Egypt and [music] the pyramids. And I can't help but ask myself exactly
how the pyramids were [music] built. If it was indeed humans or maybe something else.
I'm not sure. Thing is the pyramids and that entire area of Egypt, it's shrouded in
mysteries. Now to make things even more mysterious, it is believed that there are tunnel
systems and chambers [music] below the pyramids and the Sphinx. >> How far down do you think it goes,
Carlos? >> Let's see, I have a little light. >> Now this is mostly because in the 1980s
a Japanese group of scientists using some sort of electromagnetic technology found out several cavities and tunnels
just beneath the Sphinx and two of them actually inside [music] the Sphinx. Now because the Sphinx is considered a
guardian of lost knowledge, most are convinced that these underground tunnels and chambers could lead to underground
cities and even maybe a hall of records, one that would contain the entire history of Egypt and how it all
happened. But the fact is these tunnels and chambers, even if they do [music] exist,
they're closed and forbidden for the general public. >> [music]
>> However, in the 1970s, Zahi Hawass and Mark Lehner, two renowned archaeologists, [music] made a video of
one of these chambers just behind the Giza Sphinx. This is a snippet of the video that
shows the forbidden chamber. Take a look. >> Remember the secret tunnel in the
Sphinx's rump. >> [music] >> They removed a single stone from just to
the left of the Sphinx's tail. And sure enough, we saw this passage going down in and under the Sphinx.
They descended into the shaft. Of course, we didn't know where it was going to go.
And so, 3 weeks I spent down in the darkness underneath the Great Sphinx.
>> There is nothing hidden underneath. >> After they spent 3 weeks inside the hole,
they discovered that there was nothing hidden underneath. Notice how Zahi Hawass makes sure to state that [music]
in the video. However, other researchers and experts believe that this is not entirely true.
If you take a look at the video, there seems to be a tunnel system just next to where Zahi Hawass is. In other words,
there's more, but they don't want to show it. And nowadays, this tunnel has been completely closed and forbidden for
the general public. >> [snorts] >> And this is the other
>> This is where things get weird. Recently, a couple of explorers went in this tunnel without permission, and I
guess they were caught after all. But, the videos and pictures that they took were leaked to the internet and well
they recorded everything that was inside. This is what they saw.
>> What do you see, Adrian? >> I see that we need to go over there.
No. Okay, so that's a dead end. Here we are under the Sphinx.
In one of the four hidden holes. >> They were in great hurry and I completely understand why.
But there is a very important moment in this video that one of them were able to capture
a truly astonishing find. One that no one wants you to know about. That would be this secret tunnel entrance that is
shown in the video. But in the video we can't see it much. However, this gentleman took a picture
of it. And well, there it is. It's blocked. As in [music] no one wants you to go
there or even know about it. And what's even stranger, in my opinion, is that Zahi Hawass himself inside the tunnel
>> [music] >> didn't mention about it. The real question is where does this tunnel lead
and why was it completely blocked out? And not only that, no one mentions it officially
as if it doesn't exist. Does it lead to hidden chambers within the Sphinx? It has to be something really big and
important or else it wouldn't be hidden and blocked [music] from the general public.
In your opinion, what do you think is hidden within the Sphinx and under these secret tunnels that are found all over
Egyptian pyramids. Not only that, why do you think it's blocked and forbidden for the general public?
The whole world is full of mysterious and unknown things that have amazed researchers for quite a long time. And
Japan is a country of one of the oldest cultures that have kept the greatest secrets of previous civilizations.
The thing about it is that some of these secrets involve encounters in the very distant past with USOs and UFOs.
And as strange as it might sound, some of these encounters can be directly linked to many of the monoliths that can
be found in Japan. When it comes to mysterious monoliths in Japan, there's many and with most of
them, it's the same story. No one knows who built it, why, and how it got there.
For instance, Ishinoho-den, it's a monolith that I've talked about in previous videos.
It weighs about 500 to 600 tons and it's a single block of perfectly carved stone that no one knows why, how, and who
built it. But it's not just Ishinoho-den. There are even heavier monoliths that are even
more mysterious, such as Masuda no Iwafune, an 800-ton monolith that is located at
Asuka Park. The story begins in 1803 when Japanese fishermen were surprised by something
really strange floating just next to their boat. Curious, they dragged this underwater
submerged object off the shore of the eastern coast of the Hitachi province. According to legends, the fishermen had
encountered an Utsuro-bune, a hollowed flying ship, and an alive foreign lady inside of it.
The ship was said to be 6 m wide and almost 4 m high, and the inside walls had symbols similar to ancient Egyptian
hieroglyphs. >> So, you guys weren't expecting that. [music]
This thing was built in the Kofun period. That's over 2,000 years ago.
>> [music] >> Look at this thing. I want to get up there, but I do not
want to fall in those [music] freaking holes. All right, here we go. There's some rock climbing handholds. I'm going
to pause it till I get up there. All right, I made it. >> [music]
>> About to document some right angles for y'all. >> These, for instance, are some of the
illustrations made by the Japanese of this encounter. And these, for instance, are the symbols
that were written on the wall of the ship. Now, what's strange about it all is that these symbols are very similar
to the ones that were found in the Roswell crash. Now, strange as it already is, believe me, this gets even
stranger. The lady inside the ship carried a box, and she had pale skin and red hair and
spoke an unknown language that the fisherman couldn't understand. The story about this woman and her ship
is mentioned in at least three different manuscripts. At first, researchers thought that this was an edited story
about a shipwreck, but they couldn't find any reference in the official documents to support this theory. And as
they start digging around, they find more and more information about this Utsuro-bune.
And according to them, they found at least 11 documents that tell the same tale of this Utsuro-bune from the
Hitachi province in 1803. Now, this is where the Masuda no Ya fune monolith comes in.
Researchers started to believe that this monolith actually resembles the description of the Utsuro-bune, the USO
that fishermen had captured in 1803. >> Incredible. >> In fact, this monolith has the same size
as the Utsuro-bune that is described, and it also looks like a flying saucer. So, whatever this monolith is or
represents, it looks like a flying saucer. And to this day, no one knows exactly
where it came from, how it got there in the middle of the woods,
and who built it. Now, I don't know about you, but when I was younger, I used to look up at the
stars and wonder if we were alone in this universe. I mean, there were so many stars, it would be
impossible for us to be the only intelligent life form. Then I grew up and started researching
the Egyptians, the Mayans, the Incas, the pyramids, and I quickly learned about the hollow Earth theory.
A theory that suggests that there are hidden worlds and possibly cities deep within our planet.
Crazy, right? Well, maybe not so much. I'm going to show you guys possible video evidence that surfaced recently
that suggests maybe this is not so far-fetched. But before doing so, let me explain how
this theory became so popular. In the 1700s, a man by the name of Edmond Halley, famous for his work on
comets, proposed that the Earth might consist of a shell of 500 miles thick with two inner concentric shells and an
inner core. >> [music] >> Each shell separated by an atmosphere.
Halley's proposal was based on his attempts to explain anomalous compass readings by suggesting the existence of
a magnetic atmosphere inside Earth. Then, in the 1800s, John Cleves Symmes Jr., an American Army officer, published
a circular in which he proposed that the Earth consists of a hollow shell with openings at the poles.
Symmes dedicated most of his life trying to find these entrances in the North and South Pole.
Then, in the 19th century, a man by the name of Alexander Saint Ives wrote a book about a mysterious city that was
supposedly located in the inner core of the Earth. Fast forward to 2016, and Edgard Nero
and his team at Arizona State University found out by using seismic tomography that there is a huge blob inside the
Earth's core. This actually suggests that there's something massive inside our Earth,
but we just don't know what. Strange, isn't it? But, here's where things get even stranger.
Around 2020, the Euphrates River began to dry up. And around 2022,
a video surfaced of what's supposed to be a cave that was found in the dried-up Euphrates River.
In one of the videos, you can actually hear what sounds like a ghostly creature howling inside the cave.
>> In a second video, the explorers go inside the supposed cave, and in it you can see passageways and even what looks
like a hieroglyph. Whatever it is that's going on here, it's very hard to affirm that this is
the real deal. It could be fake, but if it isn't, then it raises some serious questions.
But it doesn't stop there. A couple of days ago, a video surfaced the internet of what's supposed to be a
mysterious passageway that was found in China while construction workers were digging at a site, and this is what
happened. Did you see that? Even though the video is only 8 seconds
long, in it we can see what looks like some sort of ancient construction that was unearthed by the people that were
digging the site. Not only that, we can hear what sounds like a massive creature on the other side of those walls. After
being posted, the video amassed millions of views, and internet users were trying to figure out what exactly was going on
here. Some left comments saying that this is possibly a dragon, while others stated
that this is maybe a lion or a tiger. Others also left comments saying that this is fake, that the sound was added
to the video, which could be the case, but I'm not too sure. Is it possible that this is some sort of
entrance to an underground hidden world? A world that John Sims Jr. and many other researchers dedicated their entire
lives searching for it. What's your take? Do you think that maybe these are just added sounds or
fakery, or do you think that this is maybe the real deal and there's something else going on
here?
The claim says explorers found an Egyptian-style city with giant mummies in the Grand Canyon in 1909. Mainstream archaeologists and historians reject it, as the only evidence comes from two newspaper articles from the Arizona Gazette, which are widely considered a hoax.
Those articles are the sole source for the story, but they are not credible. They are believed to have been fabricated to boost newspaper sales, and the Smithsonian Institution has explicitly denied any involvement with the discovery.
No. The Smithsonian has officially stated it has no records of such a discovery. The story is an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory built on a century-old hoax.
Those claims are false or unverifiable. Giant mummies have no scientific evidence, and the viral cave videos cited are from amateur sources that cannot be confirmed. They are added to make the story more sensational.
The Hopi have real spiritual ties to the Grand Canyon, but the video twists their traditions to fit a false Egyptian narrative. The factual elements are used to mislead rather than inform.
A score of 26 means the content is heavily based on unverified, sensational, and often discredited material. It mixes a few true facts (like Roosevelt’s 1908 proclamation) with many false assertions to create a misleading story.
Check if the claims are supported by established archaeological evidence, look for official statements from reputable institutions like the Smithsonian, and be wary of videos that rely on old newspaper hoaxes or vague references to 'some researchers.'
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