can we make these two sitting down and just sharing facts a regular thing please??? always loved history hit and a long time listener of NSTAAF so this was just perfect!
"Darling, we're never going to be hungry again!" Dan Snow exclaimed to the Lady Edwina Grosvenor, successful criminologist and philanthropist, and daughter of the 6th Duke of Westminster... Sorry I enjoy the videos, but that one made me chuckle.
My grandmother would often tell me the story of the ball lightning that entered the house one day, it came in through an open door and then disappeared up the chimney. She was so terrified of lightning after that that if there was a storm she would lock herself in a windowless storage cupboard and wait there until the storm had passed. She was an otherwise thoroughly sensible woman and I never had any reason to doubt her story.
First Emperor of Chinas tomb is my favourite. The fact it’s just sitting there and we’re pretty sure it’s unlooted and massive but it hasn’t been excavated super intriguing.
One of the reasons that it is not excavated is because myth and modern geological readings say it’s rife with liquid mercury . More importantly however , I think that the Chinese government is afraid that the tomb would prove to be far less grand than rumored to be , thereby exposing China first dynasty as merely mediocre in comparison to other ancient societies .
Dennis Wheatley wrote a book called "Strange Conflict" in 1941 in which the whole basis of the plot is the use of magic and the occult in the early parts of WW2
Hang on, "It became the first ever global treasure hunt" what about that Seagrams campaign? Also there's another one of those somewhere in the American west.
I heard the gold train thing back in the 70s in various countries. A old Perry Mason episode had a sunken treasure of Nazi gold episode in a lake as well :)
One more thing: Isn't there rather well-known footage of American and British soldiers unloading art treasures from Goering's boxcars? It's not gold bullion, but close.
Speaking on the subject of the missing treasure hordes of dead pharaohs...I'm always curious about the people who looted those tombs. Did they become rich and powerful after the fact? Did they squander the loot? You would think that stealing that much treasure would make one fantastically wealthy - so you'd also assume that would mean the person or persons would be semi famous.
Egypt was a cashless society until about 500 BCE therefore you couldn't sell anything you robbed for cash, nor could you really use it in ordinary trade. ('Can I give you Ramses the Greats silver chariot for ten sacks of grain please?"). Of course treasures such as gold and other items could be easily recycled, but people were caught all the time, tomb robbing was a crime still reported. Still, all you needed was a corrupt official, who rather than punishing a tomb robber would confiscate the artefacts found and just let the tomb robber go, meaning that he now could use the ill-gotten gains for his own use in the system. And the tomb robber would go on doing his thing, meaning a constant flow of wealth for the system. (This has been attested in actual Egyptian writings)
dig a hole in England and find roman coins, Saxon gold or a buried ship. did a hole here in the States and find more dirt. Ah, but I still have my dream of uncovering an ancient native American casino. great video
I think you are right there. My thoughts are; leg it from the tide to safety, King takes a turn for the worse, a small number of nobility go hunting or exercise their horses, but secretly head back at low tide, the heavy carts of the day would not have moved that much in one tide, load the jewels onto pack horses, secret them somewhere, return to base, wait until King dies, split the proceeds.
Shower curtains? Really? Guys, The hot water you're showering in heats the air, it rises and cooler air flows in from a lower point. Curtain is pushed in. Next.
My sister and I witnessed ball lightning years ago while waiting for the school bus one morning. It flaired out of a huge powerline, then guided across the sky above us away frome the lines. Then, after about 10 seconds, it faded away. Freaked us out, brought it up to our dad, and he taught us about ball lightning. It was a misty, humid morning.
in ‘sconset, next door a ball of lightning went in a upper window hit the electric guitar being played & then when out the other window. guy was stunned, but un-harmed.
My father whose childhood was spent in Lindsay Ontario Canada, told me about time ball lightning entered their farmhouse by the back door and left out the front. He said it never happened again.
my great gg grandfather jumped out the windows of hazlitt's in 1817..with a gold pocket watch he stole suposedly..transported the sydney the following year..became the first french baker in australia he fought with napoleon at waterloo..Hazlitts was then in the french quarter he eventually had a hand in bringing down governor darling back to england
My choice of mystery in history are 1. Foo fighters/Roswell/Area. 51 2. Where is the Amber Room 3. Who betrayed Nathan Hale 4. What happened to the Roanoke colony
I would have thought that the answer to shower curtains was pretty obvious. But there, I am only a 78 year old history graduate. What would I know.? Love the programme though.
An enjoyable discourse. I have experienced what I think must have been Ball Lightning and also recall my Mother telling me of her experience not dissimilar to that recounted by @MargaretUK below.
I'm definitely glad to live in today's age. Not that long ago, life was a lot more fleeting. If a contagious disease or a simple infection didn't kill you, it was easy to be killed on the job. No protections at work, and long working hours. Masses of people were killed during warfare. Either as combatants, or being mowed down as civilians when being conquered. And survivors were often enslaved.
lol I solved the shpwer curtian issue. After getting in I soak spray the curtian against the tub and it doesnt move again. unless it starts to dry then i just wet it again.
Hahaha. You fell for the old "Nazi gold" con trick. Do you not think that some of the people who left it there would have retrieved it decades ago were it true?
It was an official Polish government announcement so it's understandable that the story would be deemed credible. In this case I suspect miscommunication rather than anything subversive. The Poles didn't stand to gain much from spreading false information. It's not like the Serbian 'pyramids' which are patently natural rock formations but still get used to attract tourists.
My first thought about the German train . You were going to try to hide something like that do you really think just parking it in a tunnel and walling it off would hide it ? I mean first of all there's the railroad tracks leading up to it . Unless coyotes are prevalent in that area I don't believe anyone's going to think it's a roadrunner trap . Secondly even if you tore up some of the railroad tracks unless you've torn up the entire system leading to it and the road bed that was supporting it there's going to be clues. And last but not least wouldn't that tunnel be on maps somewhere of the rail system ? How is it we don't have a 1940s survey with these tunnels shown ? Now if you wanted to get rid of something like that you would just park the train on a bridge and blow it out of spite . Or you would put it in mines on the back of trucks maybe but it definitely wouldn't be that well hidden in an old railroad tunnel . Even if you blew the ends and caused a major collapse it could still be cleared over time or an alternative entrance created. Especially with the proper motivation
Historians / archaeologists - how likely do you think it is that one day we'll find an absolute woofer of an srtifact or set of objects, or a Wow! text? Something to outdo Tutankhamen's tomb, say, or the terracotta warriors. Could we have picked over the earth so exhaustively that there's little scope left for monstrous, epochal discoveries?
What about the Stone of Destiny, oh sorry, the English stole that. Wonder if the Egyptian antiquities have the same theories for all their stolen treasures that sit in London?
From across the pond, will you Brits learn to speak the language!! Just spent a half hour, that I'll never get back, trying to learn about "Bull lightning!" I'm now knowledgeable about lightning striking bulls, Red Bulls, bull balls, and many other things but no lightning coming into a house. Then I finally figured out you were talking about "Ball lightning!" Come on boys! Enunciate!! What's wrong with y'all??😅😅😅😅
Oh, come on. They aren't saying they believe it was the real deal. They know it's part of the whole "holy relics" scam. Every cathedral, monastery and local church tried to have some kind of holy relic to put bums on pews (though they didn't use pews in the middle ages) and attract pilgrims who would leave some kind of donation and/or buy a souvenir. Besides saints' bones, there were scads of splinters of the True Cross, dozens of nails from the Cross, Mary's tears, Mary's breast milk, fragments of Jesus' shroud and so on. All fake.
I’m truly amazed by Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. The settlement was inhabited from c. 9500 to at least 8000 BCE, during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. So they had a massive structure that was built before agriculture and settlements were supposed to have existed. We’ve always thought that it went - hunter-gatherers, settlers and agriculture AND THEN temples but now Göbekli Tepe blows that idea out of the water !! They were making temples and art BEFORE agricultural settlements were a thing… It’s truly amazing and forces us to reassess our beliefs about the Neolithic period completely.
I've heard of the cocaine mummy dinner parties. The only problem with that is that the cocaine was WITHIN the tissue. Meaning that the mummies in life, had to have ingested it when alive. The cocaine wasn't up top. But inside the flesh of these pharonic people. 🤔😋
Like my mother's grandparents' villages. As far as I can figure it out, their ancestors were German and Austrian settlers sent to establish a claim by their respective empires in Ukraine. My grandfather's education was a mix of Polish, Russian and German, depending on which country was claiming it at the time. Much of the family emigrated to get away from conflicts and revolutions.
Your legend of the Psychic woman fighting the Nazis and being bombed by the Luftwaffe sounds very much like Dion Fortune. Her Magical Order, the Society of the Inner light performed meditations of attacking Germany on the Astral Plane. At one point during the blitz the house she was staying in was bombed. A book about it is "The Magical Battle of Britain" by Gareth Knight. Gareth was famoulsy part of the order, had access to the societies archive and knew people who were involved in the "working".
Jesus Christ, this was fantastic, I mean, I get it. I'm late to the party, but omg... absolutely engrossing if nothing but for the sake of just stoking that inner child we all have who still is fascinated by the extraordinary.
Realistically the stuff that went missing during WW2 is probably somewhere (more likely not accessible anymore because of bombings). Most Art work that went missing is probably far beyond fallen apart. I'm sure there are lakes with some minor stuff chucked into them or for some reason isn't realistic to dive. Hell maybe there's a sunken ship that simply hasn't been found that was holding everything.
I doubt that there's a massive hoard somewhere because there were too many sticky-fingered people on all sides. Fascists feel entitled to skim something for themselves. The Russians would have wanted bits and bobs to make up for what they'd lost. Various members of the Allies would have been lifting souvenirs. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if part of the Amber Room was in a secret collection in the mansion of a Texas millionaire.
Helen Duncan, the last witch, was arrested in my sister’s old living. One of the photos of her seance with the papier-mâché spirit was very clearly taken in there
The Forrest Fenn treasure hidden in the Rocky Mountains is another great tale. Recently found in 2020, the hidden chest reportedly held over $2M in gold nuggets, coins, jewelry and gemstones.
friend of mine was a radio technician at butterworth in malaysia with the australian airforce..he told me of an evening the rf from the very high powered military transmitters and the humidity he thought ..generated several plasma balls floating around inside the transmitter room..which eventually dissipated..
my friend Andy Mills the esteemed senior Concorde pilot had ball lightning come through his windscreen at Mach 2 drop to the floor between him and the co-pilot roll backwards towards the door go through the door and roll down back down the gangway between all the passengers.
I've been s journalist for over three decades now, and I don't understand how you "get the rights" to a story that everyone on earth already has. (This sounds snarkier than intended, damned comments section.) BTW, Dan's little account of how he prepared to meet the Nazi gold train story is priceless, because I was once a young chaser of the career-making story, too. It never, ever works out as we envisage it.
They controlled the real estate: you needed the Polish government's permission to get at the actual train. Sort of obvious actually. I guess you qualify as yer normal avvidge journalist, the guy who makes up some text without bothering to get the most elementary facts of the story.
That area is famous for scams like this, gold, money, vodka, some kind of investment/buying the rights/etc scam, and there were corrupt politicians, so it has a patina of legitimacy. Luckily he was smart enough to realize, when he met the contacts.
If it's any consolation, it came of as more "comically ignorant" than snarky. You have to be informed to be snarky, not just someone with a lot of experience in not knowing things.
My mum saw a ball lightning pass through the house once. She is one of the most rational people I know, so I know she actually saw it. I have seen some ball-esque lightning which looked like a normal lightning but with balls coming down it, like a string of pearls. It stayed for a few seconds, so it wasn't the instant flash of a normal lightning.
can we make these two sitting down and just sharing facts a regular thing please??? always loved history hit and a long time listener of NSTAAF so this was just perfect!
I totally agree with that 👍
Yeeesssss!!!!!
"Darling, we're never going to be hungry again!" Dan Snow exclaimed to the Lady Edwina Grosvenor, successful criminologist and philanthropist, and daughter of the 6th Duke of Westminster...
Sorry I enjoy the videos, but that one made me chuckle.
They'd struggle without the money he brings in.
My grandmother would often tell me the story of the ball lightning that entered the house one day, it came in through an open door and then disappeared up the chimney. She was so terrified of lightning after that that if there was a storm she would lock herself in a windowless storage cupboard and wait there until the storm had passed. She was an otherwise thoroughly sensible woman and I never had any reason to doubt her story.
First Emperor of Chinas tomb is my favourite. The fact it’s just sitting there and we’re pretty sure it’s unlooted and massive but it hasn’t been excavated super intriguing.
One of the reasons that it is not excavated is because myth and modern geological readings say it’s rife with liquid mercury . More importantly however , I think that the Chinese government is afraid that the tomb would prove to be far less grand than rumored to be , thereby exposing China first dynasty as merely mediocre in comparison to other ancient societies .
Great to see Dan Schreiber here. A fascinating conversation! Thank you Dans both. ⭐⭐👍
Dennis Wheatley wrote a book called "Strange Conflict" in 1941 in which the whole basis of the plot is the use of magic and the occult in the early parts of WW2
Discovery of the Endurance would be right up there....
@@bluebellwood4287 who knows where you might find that
Hang on, "It became the first ever global treasure hunt" what about that Seagrams campaign? Also there's another one of those somewhere in the American west.
this guy said a lot of questionable things lol
I heard the gold train thing back in the 70s in various countries. A old Perry Mason episode had a sunken treasure of Nazi gold episode in a lake as well :)
I need more of these two! this was incredible. It could have went for 2-3 hours! Thanks!
Nice conversations and thrilled watching video about selected Mysterious matters in selected history periods...thank you (History Hit) for sharing
One more thing: Isn't there rather well-known footage of American and British soldiers unloading art treasures from Goering's boxcars? It's not gold bullion, but close.
Are you thinking of scenes from the movie "Monument Men"? No train with Nazi looted art has ever been found yet.
@@lucyfoster8624 I didn't see the movie. I did, however, read "Monuments Men."
Really enjoyed that! Need to see these two together again.
Speaking on the subject of the missing treasure hordes of dead pharaohs...I'm always curious about the people who looted those tombs. Did they become rich and powerful after the fact? Did they squander the loot? You would think that stealing that much treasure would make one fantastically wealthy - so you'd also assume that would mean the person or persons would be semi famous.
Egypt was a cashless society until about 500 BCE therefore you couldn't sell anything you robbed for cash, nor could you really use it in ordinary trade. ('Can I give you Ramses the Greats silver chariot for ten sacks of grain please?"). Of course treasures such as gold and other items could be easily recycled, but people were caught all the time, tomb robbing was a crime still reported. Still, all you needed was a corrupt official, who rather than punishing a tomb robber would confiscate the artefacts found and just let the tomb robber go, meaning that he now could use the ill-gotten gains for his own use in the system. And the tomb robber would go on doing his thing, meaning a constant flow of wealth for the system. (This has been attested in actual Egyptian writings)
Absolutely loved listening to this, such an interesting conversation!
dig a hole in England and find roman coins, Saxon gold or a buried ship. did a hole here in the States and find more dirt. Ah, but I still have my dream of uncovering an ancient native American casino. great video
Arf!
Dan, you're got a better chance of finding the Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great than the lost Crown Jewels in the Wash 🤣
I think you are right there. My thoughts are; leg it from the tide to safety, King takes a turn for the worse, a small number of nobility go hunting or exercise their horses, but secretly head back at low tide, the heavy carts of the day would not have moved that much in one tide, load the jewels onto pack horses, secret them somewhere, return to base, wait until King dies, split the proceeds.
Hi Dan, excellent discussion with some interesting thoughts. Thank you.
Shower curtains? Really? Guys, The hot water you're showering in heats the air, it rises and cooler air flows in from a lower point. Curtain is pushed in. Next.
That was great. Some I had heard of previously and some I hadn't.
Same here. It’s new rabbit holes to go falling down lol
Nice Work & Video 👍
Love you Dan glad to see the fish staff getting some more mainstream appearances
My sister and I witnessed ball lightning years ago while waiting for the school bus one morning. It flaired out of a huge powerline, then guided across the sky above us away frome the lines. Then, after about 10 seconds, it faded away. Freaked us out, brought it up to our dad, and he taught us about ball lightning. It was a misty, humid morning.
in ‘sconset, next door a ball of lightning went in a upper window hit the electric guitar being played & then when out the other window. guy was stunned, but un-harmed.
Dan Sniw is a worldwide treasure.
My father whose childhood was spent in Lindsay Ontario Canada, told me about time ball lightning entered their farmhouse by the back door and left out the front. He said it never happened again.
my great gg grandfather jumped out the windows of hazlitt's in 1817..with a gold pocket watch he stole suposedly..transported the sydney the following year..became the first french baker in australia he fought with napoleon at waterloo..Hazlitts was then in the french quarter he eventually had a hand in bringing down governor darling back to england
Hey Dan. Love your work 👍
Very fun show!
My choice of mystery in history are
1. Foo fighters/Roswell/Area. 51
2. Where is the Amber Room
3. Who betrayed Nathan Hale
4. What happened to the Roanoke colony
On dinner parties - Join the Autopsy Club and enjoy Open Mike Night!
Oh! Eewww! Groan!
🤣 the rock story is amazing... people are nuts. min 27:47
great first date guys ;)
I have ADHD good luck keeping my brainspace occupied for more than, at best, a week.
How can the curse of King Tut be told aboard the Titanic in 1912 when Howard Carter didn't discover the tomb until 1922?
Could Ball Lightning be water struck by lightning and be turned into plasma?
I would have thought that the answer to shower curtains was pretty obvious. But there, I am only a 78 year old history graduate. What would I know.? Love the programme though.
Don't do it! This is ancient aliens level history!
An enjoyable discourse. I have experienced what I think must have been Ball Lightning and also recall my Mother telling me of her experience not dissimilar to that recounted by @MargaretUK below.
Government of Poland NEVER stated that gold train was found.
All the 🌎 ❤ gold.
Nonsensical brain candy, thoroughly enjoyed it.
Ball lightening : it’s true that no one can explain it . That’s b/c it’s an alien phenomena.
I'm definitely glad to live in today's age. Not that long ago, life was a lot more fleeting. If a contagious disease or a simple infection didn't kill you, it was easy to be killed on the job. No protections at work, and long working hours. Masses of people were killed during warfare. Either as combatants, or being mowed down as civilians when being conquered. And survivors were often enslaved.
Doesn’t the shower curtain billow inwards because as the hot air/steam rises it creates a low pressure zone, then the cold air flows in from bottom…..
lol I solved the shpwer curtian issue. After getting in I soak spray the curtian against the tub and it doesnt move again. unless it starts to dry then i just wet it again.
Hahaha. You fell for the old "Nazi gold" con trick. Do you not think that some of the people who left it there would have retrieved it decades ago were it true?
Maybe it’s at Oak Island
No, they brought it by die glockes to Antarctica
🛎🛸🏔
It was an official Polish government announcement so it's understandable that the story would be deemed credible. In this case I suspect miscommunication rather than anything subversive. The Poles didn't stand to gain much from spreading false information. It's not like the Serbian 'pyramids' which are patently natural rock formations but still get used to attract tourists.
Venturi effect?
My first thought about the German train . You were going to try to hide something like that do you really think just parking it in a tunnel and walling it off would hide it ?
I mean first of all there's the railroad tracks leading up to it . Unless coyotes are prevalent in that area I don't believe anyone's going to think it's a roadrunner trap . Secondly even if you tore up some of the railroad tracks unless you've torn up the entire system leading to it and the road bed that was supporting it there's going to be clues. And last but not least wouldn't that tunnel be on maps somewhere of the rail system ? How is it we don't have a 1940s survey with these tunnels shown ? Now if you wanted to get rid of something like that you would just park the train on a bridge and blow it out of spite . Or you would put it in mines on the back of trucks maybe but it definitely wouldn't be that well hidden in an old railroad tunnel . Even if you blew the ends and caused a major collapse it could still be cleared over time or an alternative entrance created. Especially with the proper motivation
Historians / archaeologists - how likely do you think it is that one day we'll find an absolute woofer of an srtifact or set of objects, or a Wow! text? Something to outdo Tutankhamen's tomb, say, or the terracotta warriors. Could we have picked over the earth so exhaustively that there's little scope left for monstrous, epochal discoveries?
Which "Gold train"?
Well isnt it obvious ? It pulled up at platform 93/4 . Harry Potter jumped aboard, and it disappeared.
Are men in power shaping their own destiny or do all men that seek power believe in luck… and we just hear about the success stories.
Okay the narcissism portion.. A LITTLE odd ngl
It was aliens!
I liked it... until they got into the ridiculous mystery stuff like curses
What about the Stone of Destiny, oh sorry, the English stole that. Wonder if the Egyptian antiquities have the same theories for all their stolen treasures that sit in London?
Calm down and talk sense.
Stead, not Staid. Kick me.
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🌺🧐💛
Yanks,took it.
From across the pond, will you Brits learn to speak the language!! Just spent a half hour, that I'll never get back, trying to learn about "Bull lightning!" I'm now knowledgeable about lightning striking bulls, Red Bulls, bull balls, and many other things but no lightning coming into a house. Then I finally figured out you were talking about "Ball lightning!" Come on boys! Enunciate!! What's wrong with y'all??😅😅😅😅
"the putty that Adam was made from"????? REALLY!!?? it's at that point I stopped watching
Oh, come on. They aren't saying they believe it was the real deal. They know it's part of the whole "holy relics" scam. Every cathedral, monastery and local church tried to have some kind of holy relic to put bums on pews (though they didn't use pews in the middle ages) and attract pilgrims who would leave some kind of donation and/or buy a souvenir. Besides saints' bones, there were scads of splinters of the True Cross, dozens of nails from the Cross, Mary's tears, Mary's breast milk, fragments of Jesus' shroud and so on. All fake.
My understanding is that Hitler was fascinated with the occult
People send back Uluṟu rocks because they feel guilty for taking it, not because they are cursed, lol.
HUGE CRITIQUE :
This program was far too short. Need MORE!!
The train story sounds like the Geraldo / Capone fiasco
I’m truly amazed by Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. The settlement was inhabited from c. 9500 to at least 8000 BCE, during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. So they had a massive structure that was built before agriculture and settlements were supposed to have existed. We’ve always thought that it went - hunter-gatherers, settlers and agriculture AND THEN temples but now Göbekli Tepe blows that idea out of the water !! They were making temples and art BEFORE agricultural settlements were a thing… It’s truly amazing and forces us to reassess our beliefs about the Neolithic period completely.
Biggest Unsolved Mysteries why do they sell Hotdogs in packs of 8, and the buns in packs of 6?????
We have packs of 6 here... but we are too rational... we have metric too.
Using ground mummies for paint is another mind-blowing thing from the Victorian era. Daftly weird.
I've heard of the cocaine mummy dinner parties. The only problem with that is that the cocaine was WITHIN the tissue. Meaning that the mummies in life, had to have ingested it when alive. The cocaine wasn't up top. But inside the flesh of these pharonic people. 🤔😋
Yes that’s correct.
6:45 My grandmother's village was sometimes in Poland, sometimes in Russia, and sometimes in Germany depending on which army was occupying it.
Like my mother's grandparents' villages. As far as I can figure it out, their ancestors were German and Austrian settlers sent to establish a claim by their respective empires in Ukraine. My grandfather's education was a mix of Polish, Russian and German, depending on which country was claiming it at the time. Much of the family emigrated to get away from conflicts and revolutions.
Cursed rocks. This is how religion began. People making false connections between events which are not connected.
Your legend of the Psychic woman fighting the Nazis and being bombed by the Luftwaffe sounds very much like Dion Fortune. Her Magical Order, the Society of the Inner light performed meditations of attacking Germany on the Astral Plane. At one point during the blitz the house she was staying in was bombed. A book about it is "The Magical Battle of Britain" by Gareth Knight. Gareth was famoulsy part of the order, had access to the societies archive and knew people who were involved in the "working".
well, Germany lost so...... :)
'The admin of curses' is a delightful phrase.
Luck has been studied. Business success is totally dependent on luck, not hard work, not brilliant ideas, not best product but luck and timing.
“What’s the Amber room ?” If you don’t know this , you don’t belong on a history podcast w/ Dan Snow .
Jesus Christ, this was fantastic, I mean, I get it. I'm late to the party, but omg... absolutely engrossing if nothing but for the sake of just stoking that inner child we all have who still is fascinated by the extraordinary.
Realistically the stuff that went missing during WW2 is probably somewhere (more likely not accessible anymore because of bombings).
Most Art work that went missing is probably far beyond fallen apart.
I'm sure there are lakes with some minor stuff chucked into them or for some reason isn't realistic to dive. Hell maybe there's a sunken ship that simply hasn't been found that was holding everything.
I doubt that there's a massive hoard somewhere because there were too many sticky-fingered people on all sides. Fascists feel entitled to skim something for themselves. The Russians would have wanted bits and bobs to make up for what they'd lost. Various members of the Allies would have been lifting souvenirs.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if part of the Amber Room was in a secret collection in the mansion of a Texas millionaire.
Ball lightening, it's funny how sightings of these things dry up when mobile phone cameras are around.
The same with the now even more elusive Sasquatch.
People finding patterns where none exist and then believing they have found a connection is a peculiarly human brain feature.
Helen Duncan, the last witch, was arrested in my sister’s old living. One of the photos of her seance with the papier-mâché spirit was very clearly taken in there
12:49 I am 💯 onboard with this. I have been excited since “purple” last year lol. 😉
I did not expect these two worlds of mine to clash.
"Curses work, if you believe they work." That means they don't work.
Please more of this format! Great fun to listen to.
The Forrest Fenn treasure hidden in the Rocky Mountains is another great tale. Recently found in 2020, the hidden chest reportedly held over $2M in gold nuggets, coins, jewelry and gemstones.
If you could find only one lost treasure it would have to be the Ark of the Covenant.
friend of mine was a radio technician at butterworth in malaysia with the australian airforce..he told me of an evening the rf from the very high powered military transmitters and the humidity he thought ..generated several plasma balls floating around inside the transmitter room..which eventually dissipated..
my friend Andy Mills the esteemed senior Concorde pilot had ball lightning come through his windscreen at Mach 2 drop to the floor between him and the co-pilot roll backwards towards the door go through the door and roll down back down the gangway between all the passengers.
I've been s journalist for over three decades now, and I don't understand how you "get the rights" to a story that everyone on earth already has. (This sounds snarkier than intended, damned comments section.)
BTW, Dan's little account of how he prepared to meet the Nazi gold train story is priceless, because I was once a young chaser of the career-making story, too. It never, ever works out as we envisage it.
They controlled the real estate: you needed the Polish government's permission to get at the actual train.
Sort of obvious actually. I guess you qualify as yer normal avvidge journalist, the guy who makes up some text without bothering to get the most elementary facts of the story.
That area is famous for scams like this, gold, money, vodka, some kind of investment/buying the rights/etc scam, and there were corrupt politicians, so it has a patina of legitimacy. Luckily he was smart enough to realize, when he met the contacts.
This comment came off as snarky as intended 😂😂@@TheDavidlloydjones
@@TheDavidlloydjones Another squawking, tiresome media -hater. Did some mean old journalist fail to write what you wanted to see? Aww.
If it's any consolation, it came of as more "comically ignorant" than snarky. You have to be informed to be snarky, not just someone with a lot of experience in not knowing things.
hahahaha about the Nazi Gold Train I saw the first images I'm like yeah sure ok whatever !!!!!!
My mum saw a ball lightning pass through the house once. She is one of the most rational people I know, so I know she actually saw it. I have seen some ball-esque lightning which looked like a normal lightning but with balls coming down it, like a string of pearls. It stayed for a few seconds, so it wasn't the instant flash of a normal lightning.
'Mummy Brown' was well used by artists. Basically blended mummies..
You forgot Glasgow Ceptics 53 league titles?
20:39 hypotheses (hypotheseesis? hypothesiss? I can't spell)
Ball lighting should have been caught on CCTV by now
So the Nazi Gold Train is like Geraldo Rivera opening live on TV Al Capone's secret vault.
Ffs i watched that doc i cant beleve i was strung along.