I've seen a lot of footage on this in the past.. You are not showing all the actual footage. The site is much bigger and looks like the ruins in South America.. Bright Insight and Wandering Wolf give much better coverage on this subject...
Great video! Thanks. But none of these are actually Dolmens. They are glacial deposits. The first one looks intentionally contrived as a landmark of some kind, but it's not any kind of Dolmen. Just being honest here.
The megaliths might have been formed in ancient times when glacial Lake Missoula emptied, and caused the largest flash flood in North American history. Great video.
The stone formation is interesting it might have been caused by permafrost melting causing it to sink in..🤷.. although the things that are pointing up have been repositioned to the current configuration because they fell off of their pedestal.... If you look at the one that has the two white stones in the middle you can see the large one at the bottom look at the far right it crushed that rock and the rest of them followed in suit
Randal Carlson believes the Missoula flood plane was caused by a Catastrophe event from the icecap cracking and spilling an ocean full of glacial melt water. There seems to be plenty of evidence to support his hypothesis. On a side note. I’ve been to these rock formations in the video. They are all natural. It looks like a huge earthquake hit that area prehistorically. The videos do not show how all the rocked dominoed on top of each other. The rest of slabs are laying 30 yards to the side of the dolmens. The tops snapped off and tabled onto the adjacent rocks. Most of the dolmens there are made in a similar fashion.
Tristan's closing summary is on the mark for being reality based. Over time, naturally occurring events, rains, winds, glaciers, floods, earthquakes, etc., push and grind, big rocks all over the place.
Yup.I've seen rock that looked like it was 'placed' because it wasn't something you are used too. Tristons work is commendable. With the influx of mechanical devices, we have machines that can do ten thousand years of degradation in a couple of yrs. these days. I'm not saying I hate off-roading, but it does "get on the books".
I've seen a lot of footage on this in the past.. You are not showing all the actual footage. The site is much bigger and looks like the ruins in South America.. Bright Insight and Wandering Wolf give much better coverage on this subject...
@@WhatisHealth-q7l Why aren't there other examples of batholiths that look like perfectly straight walls? It's not like we're talking about aliens or magic fairies, we're talking about old structures made out of big rocks, like exist on every part of the earth.
I think they're all natural. The very first one looked really cool, but the others are kinda what you see when you get into an area with large boulders. Big rocks piled on big rocks and then the dirt erodes away over time.
'May be from an underground explosion of rocks and lava from a long ago time, that forced up the rocks and they just landed weird. 😅 Or a mentally challenged giant that didn't have anything else to do. 😂 Thanks for the adventure. ☺️
Because of evolution and our survival, we see faces everywhere because we had to scan the edge of the jungle looking for danger. It's why you see faces and animals in clouds.
I've seen a lot of footage on this in the past.. You are not showing all the actual footage. The site is much bigger and looks like the ruins in South America.. Bright Insight and Wandering Wolf give much better coverage on this subject...
Interesting natural rock formations. It's disappointing that people have vandalized the area by leaving pipes, tires, and paintings on the rock. The apples and pumpkin have seeds which may germinate so now they've introduced invasive plants to the area as well.
I've seen a lot of footage on this in the past and you really didn't show anything that I've seen before on this. They actually look like the ruins in South America.. Bright Insight and Wandering Wolf gives much better coverage on this subject...
Thank you, Tristan, for all of your You Tube posts. You always put value in each one of them. I look forward to watching them each week. You make your hikes so enjoyable to watch. I love how you tell the stories of the places you go to and the virtual experiences of being in Mother Nature that it gives me.
Natural . Glaciers moved in and out of that area more than once . Natural forces do some odd things with rock over time and move rocks the size of houses . Sometimes I think Mother Nature likes to just show off a bit . Really interesting and beautiful landscape . Always enjoy your journeys and the interesting places you visit . Shame more people don't get out and enjoy these awesome places . Shame that so many who do visit feel compelled to leave their mark on the place ! Thanks again for taking us along 👍👍
@@Max-cz2skWell , it has been 60 years since I slept through Science class , and it's possible I was a little stoned that day . I understood it came as far south as Kansas and Missouri . However , if I misspoke , I stand corrected . Thanks , have a good one !
This area is all part of the Boulder Batholith, Butte Granite makes up the bulk of the batholith. All of this is natural formations created through the process of erosion. The pipes and tire you found are part of a very popular Disc Golf course just south of Helena Montana. The drill holes may have been made by prospectors as the area around the batholith have ore deposits of lead, zinc, and silver, and gold has been found as well.
The drill holes are from the use of feathers and wedges to split the stone. Someone probably stole a stone slab for landscaping. There's nothing in that split granite boulder like a mineral vein that would be interesting to a prospector.
MONTANA MEGALITHS RESEARCH ANNOUNCEMENT APRIL 7, 2017 Andrew Barker announced: "We have undertaken an extensive deep scanning (satellite deep geoscans) project and already it has shown huge amounts of data on the history of this area. Now some of the Montana Megalithic structures speak for themselves, others are a question of visual interpretation. But it is the combination of science, native myths and legends, glyphs, massive research and unquestionable images that lead to initial conclusions." "Bingo! Montana Megalithic structures are incredible, vast, ancient, ever surprising, informative and real. Our Team is delighted to be working alongside Julie Ryder and her team." "Now we only know a fraction of the macro picture; but that is enough to understand the sites importance. The archaeologists will need many decades to formulate the micro picture. We must expect with a site of this scale that this could last into the next century." "The core difference with most sites in the world is this is pure, untouched and raw. The surrounding environmental chaos (of tens of thousands of years) has to be separated when reviewing a target dolmen. Scanning helps; but many are on rock bases. So we needed to establish criteria for dolmen classification and mark the target accordingly." www.montanamegaliths.com/
I've seen a lot of footage on this in the past and you really didn't show anything that I've seen before on this. They actually look like the ruins in South America.. Bright Insight and Wandering Wolf gives much better coverage on this subject...
A large portion of my life was spent working forest and land management throughout western Montana and northern Idaho. There has to be millions of examples here where glaciers, floods, tectonic plate shifts, limestone sinkhole collapses, rockslides, and other natural phenomena have resulted in similar arrangements of boulders and slabs of stone. Some, like the first shown in the video can be impressive. Others sometimes have Indian rock painting that can be hundreds, or even thousands of years old.
I've seen a lot of footage on this in the past and you really didn't show anything that I've seen before on this. They actually look like the ruins in South America.. Bright Insight and Wandering Wolf gives much better coverage on this subject...
Yet another great trip and report. Love your locations and story telling. Thank you. The geologist in me (My course of study in college back in the Eocene) is comfortable saying that these structures are unique but naturally occurring erosional features. Beautiful and awe-inspiring without any need for added explanation.
Especially that first 'dolmen' looked very interesting with its very tall 'uprights'. Thing is: with real dolmen (and things like passage graves, burial mounts etc), they're always pretty clear in the landscape; their builders wanted them to stand out. All these Montana 'dolmen' were all in amongst big boulder fields, where I spotted other cracked stones and/or capstones. So I agree: they all look natural to me too :-) The only thing that might have been man-made is indeed that circular feature around that triangular rock, but that was also on a slope.
Agree about natural origin of all of these. Stonehenge is in the middle of Salisbury plains 10s of miles if not more from where the rock was originally quarried and erected with incredible efforts so all could easily see. The formations shown here really wouldn’t catch the eye in most cases. The old adage the best place to hide a tree is in the forest comes to mind.
All the megaliths that exist in the old world have a clear and present purpose, especially the first is a nice example of serve no purpose and easily explained by erosion. Those megaliths that were used as burial places have been completely covered by earth mounds and the stones served as stabilising structures for their continued use (there is clear evidence that the true megaliths were in use for decades if not longer, even if used as burial places)
Agreed Tristan…they look like natural rock piles to me. I figure that’s just how they ended up and weathered after being left there after the glaciers.
I believe these are all natural (very much like the hoodoos w/caps balancing on top). However, that being said, I think the Natives and others may have used some of these as a place to congregate and have ceremony, especially the one with the circle (easily seen w/your drone) around it. Wonderful boulder footage. I love rocks, so this was such a joy for me to trek with you! Just wondering if you hit the boulder with the yellow pipe, would it "sing"?
Thanks for the video. That Tizer structure looks really cool but I have to agree with you, they all look natural (coming from a person who has seen several dolmen in Germany and Denmark)
I like that you seek these kinds of places and just enjoy seeing them and pondering the mysteries. These are certainly natural formations. I just returned from Peru where I wandered again among the true megaliths at Saqsaywaman and Machu Picchu. These are real, human designed and placed megaliths that are unmistakable. The dolmen grave sites, circles, and henges in the UK are also prominent and easily noted as man-made. As you stated, rocks fall on top of one another all the time. In chaotic and massive boulder zones like those you visited, there will be untold numbers of chance alignments and capstones. (Witness the totally natural “Balanced Rock” in Big Bend National Park for instance). This does not mean the Montana sites or similar ones elsewhere cannot be quite valid or useful spiritual sites, used either by ancient inhabitants or newly claimed by people today. I have claimed some such sites for my own personal attention and use, though I strongly dislike the modern defacings of the hanging pipes and other “additions.” It’s better to find or create one’s own private places, imbue them with personal meaning, and then leave them as you find them. Thanks for showing these sites, and keep on adventuring!
Especially when you went around to the backside of the pillars and cap stone, you can clearly see that it had been a single stone that had split. First the horizontal crack that separated the cap stone, then later the vertical crack that separated the two pillars. Particularly the ridges and coloring that spans from one stone to the other makes it obvious they had all been one piece at some point. But then, why let obvious evidence get in the way of - Aliens. 😂 Thanks Tristan❣️
thank you Tristan... learned so much from this vid...you are so knowledgeable and show us really interesting sites... I will be adding this vid to my to do list of vids for when I make it out west in the years to come...appreciate your time and attention
I'm guessing that area's also probably used as a disc golf course or something. Three Peaks Recreation Area out here in Cedar City is surrounded by granite boulders and there's a lot of disc golf "holes" amongst the cool natural rock formations.
Tizer Dolmen is the only formation that seemed at all unnatural, probably because of it's improbability. I believe most of those formations happened when the Ice age glaciers melted, and I think it's beautiful to look at!
The tizer just shows what happens when water seeps into a small crack over a million years of freezing and thawing. Every year that ice expands, open the crack the tiniest of bits and over millennia the space grows. I took geology. The mysteries of rocks existence cycles is fascinating. Watch for straight lines of rocks. (there were a few in the video) That shows how the magma pushed into cracks/seams during some volcanic event. Those "intrusions" are where mineralizations sometimes form and precious metals are found. The minerals get pushed up with the magma or seep up with quartz . Hunting for quartz veins is really fun. Imagination is fun. It's still like looking for proof of snow white or tinker bell.
It looked natural..... Till you see the stonework that the tizer is resting on. There's a few shots of them right away, had to pause it to really see the stonework. Starting at 3:11
I agree: natural formations. Thank you so much for showing them to us. That last formation that you crawled through made me hold my breath for fear a rock would shift and fall while you were in there! Must have been fun to crawl around all these rocks - like a giant playground!
1. Natural 2. Man-made 3. Alien-made 4. Sasquatch-made I'm going with number four. Squatchs love frisbee golf so they're also responsible for hanging those pipes and the tire from that tree.
This is a beautiful area. I think that they all occurred naturally over time.the circle area is interesting but still could have occurred naturally and then was an area used by people.
Wonderful video, I totally enjoyed your venturing around each site & ideas you shared on each site. Thanks for sharing, your videos, are always a joy to watch.
What a fascinating place to explore, Tristan. Thanks for sharing your adventures in SW Montana. As far as I can tell, the Tizer Dolmen looks natural to me. While viewing your video, I noticed similar outcropping of horizontal cap rocks on top of other vertical stones. The split between the 2 vertical stones appears to have been one stone at some point in time. Maybe a crack developed allowing ice to create a wedge thus splitting it into two pillars of stone. If this were in a clearing with no rocks anywhere close, like Stonehenge, I would lean towards this being manmade. The 13th, 14th and 15th Dolmens looks natural also. The Pink vault was an unusual formation, but probably natural too. I minored in Geology in college and all of these look like the result of weather and gravity.
I love how you encourage your viewers to research themselves. I believe these are natural occurances caused by glaciers coming through many, many moons ago.😊 Something like these monoliths could cause the imaginations to run wild, ie. giants could only lift those boulders or a mushroom's faery ring. Aliens? Something I used to do as a child. Lovely area, would have liked to have gone hiking there.
As a geologist with 40+ years experience, I would say all features shown could easily be explained as products of natural erosion, especially when freeze-thaw is taken into account.
What about the stonework that the tizer dolman is resting on top of? Those look hand placed. Cracks would have ran straight down or across those bottom rocks. Instead, the rock joints are staggered and looks hand placed. Starting at 3:11.
Geologists who have not examined the MM up close and personal sometimes make that mistake. MONTANA MEGALITHS RESEARCH ANNOUNCEMENT APRIL 7, 2017 Andrew Barker announced: "We have undertaken an extensive deep scanning (satellite deep geoscans) project and already it has shown huge amounts of data on the history of this area. Now some of the Montana Megalithic structures speak for themselves, others are a question of visual interpretation. But it is the combination of science, native myths and legends, glyphs, massive research and unquestionable images that lead to initial conclusions." "Bingo! Montana Megalithic structures are incredible, vast, ancient, ever surprising, informative and real. Our Team is delighted to be working alongside Julie Ryder and her team." "Now we only know a fraction of the macro picture; but that is enough to understand the sites importance. The archaeologists will need many decades to formulate the micro picture. We must expect with a site of this scale that this could last into the next century." "The core difference with most sites in the world is this is pure, untouched and raw. The surrounding environmental chaos (of tens of thousands of years) has to be separated when reviewing a target dolmen. Scanning helps; but many are on rock bases. So we needed to establish criteria for dolmen classification and mark the target accordingly." www.montanamegaliths.com/
I love watching your videos. They inspire me to want to get "off the beaten path" more. Their is a lot to see out there. I am 65, but I am in pretty good shape. I have been toying with living out of my car for a couple of years so I can have some first hand views, but my kids and grandkids would not like it if I went some of the places you go. I want to see more of this beautiful United States. Thank you for making these videos. You do a very good job making them. The stories/history you tell and the information you give about where you are is great. And the way you find places that are not where the crowds of people are is wonerful and refreshing to see. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
These sort of remind me of the elephant rocks here In Missouri. Massive boulders in sometimes precarious positions. Definitely fun to look at and scramble on. Thanks for sharing.
I agree, they do all look like natural formations. The Tyzer (?) dolman was really cool and my favorite. I also very much enjoy hearing the guitar blues in your videos.
Another amazing post! Found your podcasts about a month ago and subscribed immediately! The first formation looks the most man made but the rest look on the natural side. I'm interested where that pink rock came from tho. Thank you for taking us along and I enjoy the driving parts too! Best, from Colorado!
I agree with you, Tristan, that all of those 'dolmens' are totally fascinating natural rock formations very likely landing as they did during one or more ancient eruptions of the Yellowstone super volcano. That whole area seems to be an actual treasure-house of geologic sites. Thank you so much for taking us with you on your MEGA adventure. 😊
@@bradthompson5383 Ah....that's what my husband suggested: "glacial action." What do I know?😋 I learned more about the 'fiery' side of Earth's personality rather than Her 'icey' side. 😄 🥰
@sunnybelisle4007 Yellowstone isn't just some magical uultra powerful thing that affects everything. A rock that gets tossed is going to shatter into many pieces. And as powerful as Yellowstone is, it's not sending 10 ton boulders 100 miles away. Feet of ash maybe, but not boulders.
@@bradthompson5383 Okey Dokey....thanks for your input, Brad. However, I do know that super volcanoes are pretty powerful mechanisms. Guess I should have checked a map to learn the distance between the volcano and the boulder field for a better understanding of the situation. 😐🙂
@sunnybelisle4007 It's just such an annoying, because it's so baseless, reference to Yellowstone when there is literally no reason whatsoever to l8nk them other than it's a "powerful thing of vague quantitative power" so I'm just going to randomly throw it out there.
I think the same as you, natural. Thanks for sharing. I enjoy your videos as they are informative. I especially enjoy the history you give on the topic and area. Cheers and always look forward to next week’s episode. Love the area you hike. So different where I hike. I have been several years back in some of those places you hike and fell in love with that area.
Great video. I feel fairly confident that the stones are natural, not made by human hands. I know it doesn’t compare to say Ireland, Lebanon and numerous South American complexes!
Interesting and beautiful. In my "backyard" here in the Sandia Mountains in NM there are multitudes of granite blocks that have ended up in stacked positions like the ones in Montana so my vote is for natural. Nevertheless, it's always amazing to stand among these giants and imagine the forces of nature have been in play in order for them to be as they are today.
That stuff is all nature at work. If you ever go to Joshua Tree N. P. in California, you will see millions of those..... Great fun looking at for sure.
The hanging pipes and tire, with little wooden signs is probably a DIY disk golf course. The pipes and tires are targets. The signs are supposed to point you to the next target.
There’s a couple videos out there on TH-cam on the geology of the Montana megaliths, one I believe is on the wall. I have never seen anything before about the drill holes in the granite, that’s interesting. Almost look like a small quarry.
That first one tho. I like that folks can use their imagination. I live in Idaho so this will go on the bucket list. It would fun to take the Gran kids on field trip. At the very least this is an interesting boulder field, and I love that area. Thanks Tristan.
I do agree with Tristan as well, as much as I believe in super natural, lost civilizations, extra terrestrial influence, everything looks too naturally occurring except for the ring image, although this could possibly had been a minor glacial type of kettle or esker geo feature. Nonetheless, it is a cool area to explore!
I think your assessment is on spot, all natural phenomena. Even the circle could be a natural feature caused by a small meteorite impact. Thanks for sharing! I always enjoy seeing unique scenery and features around the world.
I think there are many many lost civilizations all over the planet, but I think everything shown in this video is natural. Nice rocks and woods though. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video, I think you'll also enjoy this one: th-cam.com/video/SO0CopKbes8/w-d-xo.html
I've seen a lot of footage on this in the past.. You are not showing all the actual footage. The site is much bigger and looks like the ruins in South America.. Bright Insight and Wandering Wolf give much better coverage on this subject...
If you look at the first one the rock on top looks like it has a fossil in it. If you see the brown spot. If you ever go back get the drone to zoom in
11:19 stoners that forgot the H in brother, I’m thinkin… 😅
Great video! Thanks. But none of these are actually Dolmens. They are glacial deposits. The first one looks intentionally contrived as a landmark of some kind, but it's not any kind of Dolmen. Just being honest here.
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The megaliths might have been formed in ancient times when glacial Lake Missoula emptied, and caused the largest flash flood in North American history. Great video.
The stone formation is interesting it might have been caused by permafrost melting causing it to sink in..🤷.. although the things that are pointing up have been repositioned to the current configuration because they fell off of their pedestal....
If you look at the one that has the two white stones in the middle you can see the large one at the bottom look at the far right it crushed that rock and the rest of them followed in suit
Randal Carlson believes the Missoula flood plane was caused by a Catastrophe event from the icecap cracking and spilling an ocean full of glacial melt water. There seems to be plenty of evidence to support his hypothesis. On a side note. I’ve been to these rock formations in the video. They are all natural. It looks like a huge earthquake hit that area prehistorically. The videos do not show how all the rocked dominoed on top of each other. The rest of slabs are laying 30 yards to the side of the dolmens. The tops snapped off and tabled onto the adjacent rocks. Most of the dolmens there are made in a similar fashion.
Tristan's closing summary is on the mark for being reality based. Over time, naturally occurring events, rains, winds, glaciers, floods, earthquakes, etc., push and grind, big rocks all over the place.
Yup.I've seen rock that looked like it was 'placed' because it wasn't something you are used too. Tristons work is commendable. With the influx of mechanical devices, we have machines that can do ten thousand years of degradation in a couple of yrs. these days.
I'm not saying I hate off-roading, but it does "get on the books".
One and two ,🤔51% natural.
I've seen a lot of footage on this in the past.. You are not showing all the actual footage. The site is much bigger and looks like the ruins in South America.. Bright Insight and Wandering Wolf give much better coverage on this subject...
time, intrusion, mechanical and chemical weathering and humans lost in a fantasy world
@@WhatisHealth-q7l Why aren't there other examples of batholiths that look like perfectly straight walls? It's not like we're talking about aliens or magic fairies, we're talking about old structures made out of big rocks, like exist on every part of the earth.
I think the 18 pipes and tires hanging are frisbee targets. I think the tombs are from glaciers
Yep. Definitely an old school frisbee golf course.
Those rocks are left on top as the glaciers receded.
I think they're all natural. The very first one looked really cool, but the others are kinda what you see when you get into an area with large boulders. Big rocks piled on big rocks and then the dirt erodes away over time.
Absolutely. Some look like glacial erratics.
Agreed. Thanks for watching!
After seeing the size of massive boulders and destruction inside caves in China, this is exactly what it is. Still cool.
'May be from an underground explosion of rocks and lava from a long ago time, that forced up the rocks and they just landed weird. 😅 Or a mentally challenged giant that didn't have anything else to do. 😂 Thanks for the adventure. ☺️
The first one is very interesting, but you can clearly see that the splits continue down into the rock below.
Tristan, I just so enjoy you and how you video your adventures. You come across as so genuine and passionate about your work. Thank you so much!
Thanks! I appreciate that 😁
Nature provides many opportunities for imagination. Clouds, rocks, mountains, canyons. Love your adventures.
Because of evolution and our survival, we see faces everywhere because we had to scan the edge of the jungle looking for danger. It's why you see faces and animals in clouds.
I've seen a lot of footage on this in the past.. You are not showing all the actual footage. The site is much bigger and looks like the ruins in South America.. Bright Insight and Wandering Wolf give much better coverage on this subject...
Interesting natural rock formations. It's disappointing that people have vandalized the area by leaving pipes, tires, and paintings on the rock. The apples and pumpkin have seeds which may germinate so now they've introduced invasive plants to the area as well.
It’s for a disk golf course
@@KristiKusche He's usually in very remote locations so that never occurred to me. Thanks for the info.
I believe it's glacial deposited granite
Montana is full of the decomposing granite. I use to sell it for 115.00 a ton . From our ranch. 😂
12:19:2023 11:43 pm CST rural Indiana NW. thanks enjoyed the hike👍
I've seen a lot of footage on this in the past and you really didn't show anything that I've seen before on this. They actually look like the ruins in South America.. Bright Insight and Wandering Wolf gives much better coverage on this subject...
Thank you, Tristan, for all of your You Tube posts. You always put value in each one of them. I look forward to watching them each week. You make your hikes so enjoyable to watch. I love how you tell the stories of the places you go to and the virtual experiences of being in Mother Nature that it gives me.
Natural . Glaciers moved in and out of that area more than once . Natural forces do some odd things with rock over time and move rocks the size of houses . Sometimes I think Mother Nature likes to just show off a bit . Really interesting and beautiful landscape . Always enjoy your journeys and the interesting places you visit . Shame more people don't get out and enjoy these awesome places . Shame that so many who do visit feel compelled to leave their mark on the place ! Thanks again for taking us along 👍👍
You sure about that? The ice was just north of that area during the last ice age.
@@Max-cz2skWell , it has been 60 years since I slept through Science class , and it's possible I was a little stoned that day . I understood it came as far south as Kansas and Missouri . However , if I misspoke , I stand corrected . Thanks , have a good one !
I’ll always remember a sign I saw when entering Sonora Caverns in Sonora, TX. It says, “Take only pictures. Leave only footprints.”
Looks like a fun place for kids to play. Reminded me of the city of rocks in New Mexico which are totally natural.
A fun playground!
Oops, singular... which 'is' totally natural. 😊
Naw. No kids allowed
I thought the city of rocks was man made. lol
These remind me of the tallus caves in pinnacles national park. So beautiful and intriguing. Thanks for sharing these beautiful rocks with us.
yup
This area is all part of the Boulder Batholith, Butte Granite makes up the bulk of the batholith. All of this is natural formations created through the process of erosion. The pipes and tire you found are part of a very popular Disc Golf course just south of Helena Montana. The drill holes may have been made by prospectors as the area around the batholith have ore deposits of lead, zinc, and silver, and gold has been found as well.
The drill holes are from the use of feathers and wedges to split the stone. Someone probably stole a stone slab for landscaping. There's nothing in that split granite boulder like a mineral vein that would be interesting to a prospector.
Thanks for the information 🤗🤗🤗
I also agree
MONTANA MEGALITHS RESEARCH ANNOUNCEMENT
APRIL 7, 2017
Andrew Barker announced: "We have undertaken an extensive deep scanning (satellite deep geoscans) project and already it has shown huge amounts of data on the history of this area. Now some of the Montana Megalithic structures speak for themselves, others are a question of visual interpretation. But it is the combination of science, native myths and legends, glyphs, massive research and unquestionable images that lead to initial conclusions."
"Bingo! Montana Megalithic structures are incredible, vast, ancient, ever surprising, informative and real. Our Team is delighted to be working alongside Julie Ryder and her team."
"Now we only know a fraction of the macro picture; but that is enough to understand the sites importance. The archaeologists will need many decades to formulate the micro picture. We must expect with a site of this scale that this could last into the next century."
"The core difference with most sites in the world is this is pure, untouched and raw. The surrounding environmental chaos (of tens of thousands of years) has to be separated when reviewing a target dolmen. Scanning helps; but many are on rock bases. So we needed to establish criteria for dolmen classification and mark the target accordingly."
www.montanamegaliths.com/
I've seen a lot of footage on this in the past and you really didn't show anything that I've seen before on this. They actually look like the ruins in South America.. Bright Insight and Wandering Wolf gives much better coverage on this subject...
A large portion of my life was spent working forest and land management throughout western Montana and northern Idaho. There has to be millions of examples here where glaciers, floods, tectonic plate shifts, limestone sinkhole collapses, rockslides, and other natural phenomena have resulted in similar arrangements of boulders and slabs of stone. Some, like the first shown in the video can be impressive. Others sometimes have Indian rock painting that can be hundreds, or even thousands of years old.
Or even millions or 10's of millions years old,humans have no concept of time
I've seen a lot of footage on this in the past and you really didn't show anything that I've seen before on this. They actually look like the ruins in South America.. Bright Insight and Wandering Wolf gives much better coverage on this subject...
Yet another great trip and report. Love your locations and story telling. Thank you. The geologist in me (My course of study in college back in the Eocene) is comfortable saying that these structures are unique but naturally occurring erosional features. Beautiful and awe-inspiring without any need for added explanation.
Especially that first 'dolmen' looked very interesting with its very tall 'uprights'. Thing is: with real dolmen (and things like passage graves, burial mounts etc), they're always pretty clear in the landscape; their builders wanted them to stand out. All these Montana 'dolmen' were all in amongst big boulder fields, where I spotted other cracked stones and/or capstones. So I agree: they all look natural to me too :-) The only thing that might have been man-made is indeed that circular feature around that triangular rock, but that was also on a slope.
All are natural. The garbage people leave behind is nothing short of disconnected and disrespectful.
Agree about natural origin of all of these. Stonehenge is in the middle of Salisbury plains 10s of miles if not more from where the rock was originally quarried and erected with incredible efforts so all could easily see. The formations shown here really wouldn’t catch the eye in most cases. The old adage the best place to hide a tree is in the forest comes to mind.
The pipes are for location maybe cause if you hit it hard it can be heard for a good distance.
All the megaliths that exist in the old world have a clear and present purpose, especially the first is a nice example of serve no purpose and easily explained by erosion. Those megaliths that were used as burial places have been completely covered by earth mounds and the stones served as stabilising structures for their continued use (there is clear evidence that the true megaliths were in use for decades if not longer, even if used as burial places)
Brilliant filming my friend, your content is always inspiring and simply enjoyable! Brilliant channel 👌
I appreciate you pinpointing the location in the area to be explored at the beginning of your videos! This was interesting. Happy Holidays, all.
Agreed Tristan…they look like natural rock piles to me. I figure that’s just how they ended up and weathered after being left there after the glaciers.
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I believe these are all natural (very much like the hoodoos w/caps balancing on top). However, that being said, I think the Natives and others may have used some of these as a place to congregate and have ceremony, especially the one with the circle (easily seen w/your drone) around it. Wonderful boulder footage. I love rocks, so this was such a joy for me to trek with you! Just wondering if you hit the boulder with the yellow pipe, would it "sing"?
@SUVRVing your videos are always so informative and well done. Thank you for taking us to all these beautiful places.
My property in northern NM has some cool rock formations. All natural.
Thanks for the video. That Tizer structure looks really cool but I have to agree with you, they all look natural (coming from a person who has seen several dolmen in Germany and Denmark)
Always enjoy Saturday mornings with you.
Thanks for watching!
I like that you seek these kinds of places and just enjoy seeing them and pondering the mysteries.
These are certainly natural formations. I just returned from Peru where I wandered again among the true megaliths at Saqsaywaman and Machu Picchu. These are real, human designed and placed megaliths that are unmistakable. The dolmen grave sites, circles, and henges in the UK are also prominent and easily noted as man-made. As you stated, rocks fall on top of one another all the time. In chaotic and massive boulder zones like those you visited, there will be untold numbers of chance alignments and capstones. (Witness the totally natural “Balanced Rock” in Big Bend National Park for instance).
This does not mean the Montana sites or similar ones elsewhere cannot be quite valid or useful spiritual sites, used either by ancient inhabitants or newly claimed by people today. I have claimed some such sites for my own personal attention and use, though I strongly dislike the modern defacings of the hanging pipes and other “additions.” It’s better to find or create one’s own private places, imbue them with personal meaning, and then leave them as you find them.
Thanks for showing these sites, and keep on adventuring!
natural beauty
Especially when you went around to the backside of the pillars and cap stone, you can clearly see that it had been a single stone that had split. First the horizontal crack that separated the cap stone, then later the vertical crack that separated the two pillars. Particularly the ridges and coloring that spans from one stone to the other makes it obvious they had all been one piece at some point.
But then, why let obvious evidence get in the way of - Aliens. 😂
Thanks Tristan❣️
Have to agree with you 100%!
Or GIANTS?
thank you Tristan... learned so much from this vid...you are so knowledgeable and show us really interesting sites... I will be adding this vid to my to do list of vids for when I make it out west in the years to come...appreciate your time and attention
I'm guessing that area's also probably used as a disc golf course or something. Three Peaks Recreation Area out here in Cedar City is surrounded by granite boulders and there's a lot of disc golf "holes" amongst the cool natural rock formations.
Disk golf was my first thought.
I thought the same thing
Ditto
I've been curious about these for a long time and really appreciated the tour! Thanks for making this video.
Tizer Dolmen is the only formation that seemed at all unnatural, probably because of it's improbability. I believe most of those formations happened when the Ice age glaciers melted, and I think it's beautiful to look at!
The tizer just shows what happens when water seeps into a small crack over a million years of freezing and thawing. Every year that ice expands, open the crack the tiniest of bits and over millennia the space grows. I took geology. The mysteries of rocks existence cycles is fascinating. Watch for straight lines of rocks. (there were a few in the video) That shows how the magma pushed into cracks/seams during some volcanic event. Those "intrusions" are where mineralizations sometimes form and precious metals are found. The minerals get pushed up with the magma or seep up with quartz . Hunting for quartz veins is really fun. Imagination is fun. It's still like looking for proof of snow white or tinker bell.
It looked natural..... Till you see the stonework that the tizer is resting on. There's a few shots of them right away, had to pause it to really see the stonework. Starting at 3:11
I agree: natural formations. Thank you so much for showing them to us. That last formation that you crawled through made me hold my breath for fear a rock would shift and fall while you were in there! Must have been fun to crawl around all these rocks - like a giant playground!
1. Natural
2. Man-made
3. Alien-made
4. Sasquatch-made
I'm going with number four. Squatchs love frisbee golf so they're also responsible for hanging those pipes and the tire from that tree.
Tristan, the pipes and tires are for a disc golf course.
This is a beautiful area. I think that they all occurred naturally over time.the circle area is interesting but still could have occurred naturally and then was an area used by people.
Wonderful video, I totally enjoyed your venturing around each site & ideas you shared on each site.
Thanks for sharing, your videos, are always a joy to watch.
Entirely natural. I've seen countless examples in my over 40 years of wilderness exploring.
What a fascinating place to explore, Tristan. Thanks for sharing your adventures in SW Montana. As far as I can tell, the Tizer Dolmen looks natural to me. While viewing your video, I noticed similar outcropping of horizontal cap rocks on top of other vertical stones. The split between the 2 vertical stones appears to have been one stone at some point in time. Maybe a crack developed allowing ice to create a wedge thus splitting it into two pillars of stone. If this were in a clearing with no rocks anywhere close, like Stonehenge, I would lean towards this being manmade. The 13th, 14th and 15th Dolmens looks natural also. The Pink vault was an unusual formation, but probably natural too. I minored in Geology in college and all of these look like the result of weather and gravity.
I love how you encourage your viewers to research themselves. I believe these are natural occurances caused by glaciers coming through many, many moons ago.😊 Something like these monoliths could cause the imaginations to run wild, ie. giants could only lift those boulders or a mushroom's faery ring. Aliens? Something I used to do as a child. Lovely area, would have liked to have gone hiking there.
Pretty clueless
I believe that area was actually clear of glaciers during the last ice age.
I really wouldn't know, yet. I didn't study geology, Interest came late in life.🤔☺But I believe you.🙂@@Max-cz2sk
Very interesting geology. Thank you for the road trip to a beautiful area. Again.
As a geologist with 40+ years experience, I would say all features shown could easily be explained as products of natural erosion, especially when freeze-thaw is taken into account.
What about the stonework that the tizer dolman is resting on top of? Those look hand placed. Cracks would have ran straight down or across those bottom rocks. Instead, the rock joints are staggered and looks hand placed. Starting at 3:11.
Geologists who have not examined the MM up close and personal sometimes make that mistake.
MONTANA MEGALITHS RESEARCH ANNOUNCEMENT APRIL 7, 2017
Andrew Barker announced: "We have undertaken an extensive deep scanning (satellite deep geoscans) project and already it has shown huge amounts of data on the history of this area. Now some of the Montana Megalithic structures speak for themselves, others are a question of visual interpretation. But it is the combination of science, native myths and legends, glyphs, massive research and unquestionable images that lead to initial conclusions."
"Bingo! Montana Megalithic structures are incredible, vast, ancient, ever surprising, informative and real. Our Team is delighted to be working alongside Julie Ryder and her team."
"Now we only know a fraction of the macro picture; but that is enough to understand the sites importance. The archaeologists will need many decades to formulate the micro picture. We must expect with a site of this scale that this could last into the next century."
"The core difference with most sites in the world is this is pure, untouched and raw. The surrounding environmental chaos (of tens of thousands of years) has to be separated when reviewing a target dolmen. Scanning helps; but many are on rock bases. So we needed to establish criteria for dolmen classification and mark the target accordingly."
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As a citizen i would say that most of the univeritys are used to brainwash people.
I love watching your videos. They inspire me to want to get "off the beaten path" more. Their is a lot to see out there. I am 65, but I am in pretty good shape. I have been toying with living out of my car for a couple of years so I can have some first hand views, but my kids and grandkids would not like it if I went some of the places you go. I want to see more of this beautiful United States. Thank you for making these videos. You do a very good job making them. The stories/history you tell and the information you give about where you are is great. And the way you find places that are not where the crowds of people are is wonerful and refreshing to see. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
13:42 someone is "gifting" the local Sasquatch to gain their trust
These sort of remind me of the elephant rocks here In Missouri. Massive boulders in sometimes precarious positions. Definitely fun to look at and scramble on. Thanks for sharing.
Obviously natural, still very cool. The hanging items look like diy disc golf goals.
I agree, they do all look like natural formations. The Tyzer (?) dolman was really cool and my favorite. I also very much enjoy hearing the guitar blues in your videos.
Another amazing post! Found your podcasts about a month ago and subscribed immediately! The first formation looks the most man made but the rest look on the natural side. I'm interested where that pink rock came from tho. Thank you for taking us along and I enjoy the driving parts too! Best, from Colorado!
the stuff in the trees is a diy disc golf course i think
I agree with you, Tristan, that all of those 'dolmens' are totally fascinating natural rock formations very likely landing as they did during one or more ancient eruptions of the Yellowstone super volcano. That whole area seems to be an actual treasure-house of geologic sites. Thank you so much for taking us with you on your MEGA adventure. 😊
Lol, no, no connection to Yellowstone volcano. Just boring erosion, likely glacial.
@@bradthompson5383 Ah....that's what my husband suggested: "glacial action." What do I know?😋 I learned more about the 'fiery' side of Earth's personality rather than Her 'icey' side. 😄 🥰
@sunnybelisle4007
Yellowstone isn't just some magical uultra powerful thing that affects everything. A rock that gets tossed is going to shatter into many pieces. And as powerful as Yellowstone is, it's not sending 10 ton boulders 100 miles away. Feet of ash maybe, but not boulders.
@@bradthompson5383 Okey Dokey....thanks for your input, Brad. However, I do know that super volcanoes are pretty powerful mechanisms. Guess I should have checked a map to learn the distance between the volcano and the boulder field for a better understanding of the situation. 😐🙂
@sunnybelisle4007
It's just such an annoying, because it's so baseless, reference to Yellowstone when there is literally no reason whatsoever to l8nk them other than it's a "powerful thing of vague quantitative power" so I'm just going to randomly throw it out there.
Thank you for teaching me the meaning of boulders settling to create temporary arches
I think the same as you, natural. Thanks for sharing. I enjoy your videos as they are informative. I especially enjoy the history you give on the topic and area. Cheers and always look forward to next week’s episode. Love the area you hike. So different where I hike. I have been several years back in some of those places you hike and fell in love with that area.
The pipes and tire may be for Frisbee golf?
Oh wow that first one looks totally manmade especially with that capstone
Great video. I feel fairly confident that the stones are natural, not made by human hands. I know it doesn’t compare to say Ireland, Lebanon and numerous South American complexes!
Are the poles maybe targets for a disc golf course?
That is incredibly cool and, of course, a natural formation.
I think they are all natural. I think the signs with numbers and the tire are for a Folf (Frisbee golf) course.
Your closing summary, AGREE! Thanks for the tour.
Great job it was fun
99% natural…the one with the darker rocks around the lighter one look interesting.. But great video of a beautiful place in Montana.
I really like the pink rocks. Looks like a fun adventure. Thanks!
Interesting and beautiful. In my "backyard" here in the Sandia Mountains in NM there are multitudes of granite blocks that have ended up in stacked positions like the ones in Montana so my vote is for natural. Nevertheless, it's always amazing to stand among these giants and imagine the forces of nature have been in play in order for them to be as they are today.
Thanks for sharing. Nothing matters its all wonderful, Nature, Light, Belief
Great video, beautiful scenery.
So crazy. Like wow. Thank u for sharing
I agree with you. It's the amazing work of glaciers. Thanks for sharing these!
Natural formations & very cool!
Thanks that looks like natural. . You get into that area of Montana. And there is alot of places that look like that. Thanks for video
Instant subscription....love your work bro.🎉
Excellent video Tristan, thank you 🫡
I really appreciated the final comments you made. It was so refreshing! People can be so credulous nowadays.
I agree that people need to explore for themselves and enjoy it
Natural. If you want to see more of this type of formation, go to the Pikes Peak area in Colorado. The Crags, near Woodland Park are fantastic!
They look natural to my eye.
I agree with you, looks natural, that was fun!
That stuff is all nature at work. If you ever go to Joshua Tree N. P. in California, you will see millions of those..... Great fun looking at for sure.
This is without a doubt a Dolmen. Amazing!
The hanging pipes and tire, with little wooden signs is probably a DIY disk golf course. The pipes and tires are targets. The signs are supposed to point you to the next target.
#2 Good stuff MrT☺️
Weren't those hole markers on the Sheep Mountain Disc Golf Course?
Congratulations you win the Grand Prize!! We live in Helena and have played the 18 hole Disc Golf Course on Sheep Mountain several times!
There’s a couple videos out there on TH-cam on the geology of the Montana megaliths, one I believe is on the wall. I have never seen anything before about the drill holes in the granite, that’s interesting. Almost look like a small quarry.
Awesome! Thank you for sharing.
Pretty sure that is a disc golf course. Hitting the pipe or throwing through the tire is like making ball in hole, just with a freebie.
Thanks for the journey. Beautiful scenery. All looks natural but that doesn’t take anything away from the spiritual.👍🏴
Excellent, thanks for sharing
I agree. They all look natural to me. Very fascinating tho.
Well nifty. I'll have to check these out next time I'm out there.
Everything I saw looked totally natural.
That first one tho. I like that folks can use their imagination. I live in Idaho so this will go on the bucket list. It would fun to take the Gran kids on field trip. At the very least this is an interesting boulder field, and I love that area. Thanks Tristan.
I do agree with Tristan as well, as much as I believe in super natural, lost civilizations, extra terrestrial influence, everything looks too naturally occurring except for the ring image, although this could possibly had been a minor glacial type of kettle or esker geo feature. Nonetheless, it is a cool area to explore!
I think your assessment is on spot, all natural phenomena. Even the circle could be a natural feature caused by a small meteorite impact. Thanks for sharing! I always enjoy seeing unique scenery and features around the world.
The first one and pink vault? are unusual for sure the rest look natural to me as well. then the drilling marks too hum makes ya wonder.
The yellow and orange pipes and the hanging tire are probably used for Disc Golf. It"s a popular sport in Western Montana.
I totally agree with your assessment. The most curious thing today were the apples and tiny pumpkin.
I think some good old boys were having fun while getting some granite and having a good laugh 😃 😀. Cool video thanks for sharing.
They look natural to me too. They are interesting to look at.
Big fan, I try to watch all of your videos. I feel like its a mixture of natural and man made.
I agree with you. They appear to me to be natural. Thanks again for your wonderful videos. They are appreciated.
Some of the ones from the other place have the knobs on the sides that can be found on other megalithic rocks around the world.
I think there are many many lost civilizations all over the planet, but I think everything shown in this video is natural. Nice rocks and woods though. Thanks for sharing.