Unveiling the Secrets of Stonehenge: From Cremation to World Grid Theories

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  • @decodingtheunknown2373
    @decodingtheunknown2373  ปีที่แล้ว +24

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    • @staytuned2L337
      @staytuned2L337 ปีที่แล้ว

      The vessis are amazing shoes. I need the winters for next year though.

    • @Darth-Claw-Killflex
      @Darth-Claw-Killflex ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ugliest footwear I've ever seen.

    • @Phatxual
      @Phatxual ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Can we respectfully get a slight 'volume raise' on Simon's voice, from the editor, please and thank you? Lol I'm listening on an S21 Ultra and really feel it shouldn't have to be maxed out in order to clearly hear from what's not even 3ft away😅
      Much love tho otherwise!💯❤️‍🔥

    • @taliaryn3699
      @taliaryn3699 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm on my 4th pair of Vessis

    • @taliaryn3699
      @taliaryn3699 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@Phatxual I have two cellphones. Both are the same type of Andriod but different models. the older model has MUCH better volume. I think newer phones/devices are getting worse. I'm listening to this on the older model now, volume seems good.

  • @bboops23
    @bboops23 ปีที่แล้ว +489

    I'd like to request a video on the Tasmanian Tiger or Thylacine. It was declared extinct ages ago, believing to have gone extinct in 1936 and yet some Australians believe that they are still alive. New evidence shows that they may not have gone extinct until 1980-2000. And the Australian government receives sighting reports every year. Some reports even have videos. It would make a great topic.

    • @DerptyDerptyDUM
      @DerptyDerptyDUM ปีที่แล้ว +6

      SECONDED!!

    • @swiftycortex
      @swiftycortex ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I agree

    • @JennyNobody
      @JennyNobody ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I want this as well!!!! Ever since I was a little girl I longed to see those animals that went extinct within human recollection - the Tasmanian tiger being #1

    • @jessgunn6639
      @jessgunn6639 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      don`t forget they were also native to new guinee and it`s widely believed there is a healthy population living there!

    • @FriedFreya
      @FriedFreya ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I pray they are still alive, the Outback is vast wildlands, after all... there is an inkling of a chance, and if we can find some living specimens, we may be able to repopulate, or at the very least have a protected population that is kept safe and secure.Magnificent creatures, I lament that we did nothing to help them.

  • @nwz6h66
    @nwz6h66 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Fun fact: the oldest wheel yet discovered is in my home country of Slovenia and it was made in approximately the same time period as the supposed beginnings of stoneghenge - about 5k years ago.

    • @he-landewalt9497
      @he-landewalt9497 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I always find it really confusing when people say that things were done before the invention of the wheel. I mean, how do they know? How can we possibly know? 🤷‍♀️

    • @sno4439
      @sno4439 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I believe the American Indians were making toys with wheels around 10,000bc

    • @leeneufeld4140
      @leeneufeld4140 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      But if the stones were moved using timber logs as rollers, wasn't that essentially using a wheel? They just didn't have the joinery skills yet to construct wheels.

    • @sweetnumb
      @sweetnumb ปีที่แล้ว

      @@he-landewalt9497 When people talk about things done before the invention of the wheel, unless it's a joke then the whole point is the fact that we don't honestly know. This is to inspire the imagination and just appreciate the fact that life did indeed exist before wheels were commonly known about and we were still able to survive. Therefore, place infinitely high value upon your own life and those of others, because people struggled their asses off simply to survive and further the human species. Being depressed is a luxury of such high value that 99.99% of humanity was never wealthy enough to even coming close to experiencing it.

    • @wolfiemuse
      @wolfiemuse ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sweetnumb wealth has nothing to do with whether you experience depression, in fact it’s worse in poverty situations. not a good comparison

  • @StarWarsAnime
    @StarWarsAnime ปีที่แล้ว +66

    My Grandfather was part of the restoration team for stonehenge in the 1920s. He said they didn't really know what they were doing and just tried to make it look interesting. He use to laugh when people thought they had mystical powers!

    • @Dom_Meribel
      @Dom_Meribel ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Funny how this wasn't mentioned at all in the 'unknown' script.. I was surprised it didn't get a mention as it poops on the alien and energy theories as it was rebuilt by the Anthrobus family who owned the land.. hey ho

    • @bradlevantis913
      @bradlevantis913 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s cool. I’ve heard that a lot of the site has been reengineered which makes a lot of the theories subject to errors. It would be interesting if we could find records of what was done at the time

    • @bethaltair812
      @bethaltair812 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought that old painting if it pre restoration would come up

  • @TheAntiburglar
    @TheAntiburglar ปีที่แล้ว +75

    As a current archaeology student in the UK I can confirm that archaeological projects today do, indeed, leave a great deal of any given site un-excavated. In fact, the only site I've excavated thus far that has been completely excavated was at a site slowly collapsing into the sea, so there won't be anything left for future archaeologists to dig anyway.

    • @SkunkApe407
      @SkunkApe407 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      US Archaeological Surveyor here. I'm pretty certain that's standard procedure everywhere, these days. I've worked a few digs where full sites were excavated, but they were usually recorded, artifacts cataloged, and then the site was buried at least partially. Doing so allows us to see and document the entire site, while still preserving its integrity.

    • @Horvath_Gabor
      @Horvath_Gabor ปีที่แล้ว +8

      When I studied archeology way back when, one of the things one my professors said stuck with me: we should avoid excavating sites as much as possible, because our goal is preservation, and the trend shows that non-intrusive data-collection methods are getting more sophisticated year by year. Therefore, we should preserve the sites for future generations, who would hopefully have the technology to analyze them much more precisely than we could, and by disturbing the soil, we are essentially destroying their ability to do so.

    • @meryamdjeghri7737
      @meryamdjeghri7737 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The real question here is : are you any good whit a whip?

    • @SkunkApe407
      @SkunkApe407 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@meryamdjeghri7737 nah, but I'm a surgeon with a slingshot! More Dennis the Menace than Indy.

    • @0x2A_
      @0x2A_ ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Horvath_Gabor I like that, doing a proper job later rather than a half assed job now.

  • @victoriaeads6126
    @victoriaeads6126 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Construction of the roof! 😂😂😂 If I had been among those American tourists, I would have been quietly dying of laughter at the back. Not only would my dad pull something like that, but I also am sure at least half of ANY group of tourists would buy that story hook, line, and sinker.
    When I was a kid, my dad would start telling us about various exhibits whenever we went to museums, especially aviation museums. It became a running joke to see how long it took him to attract an impromptu tour group, and how big it would get. He would be legitimately talking about the exhibits then,mind you. Sometimes there were over a dozen people by the end! 😜💖

    • @jessgunn6639
      @jessgunn6639 ปีที่แล้ว

      oh my god! i never realised my father had another family lol hello sister from another testie! lmao dad was always making up crap, like when he told me that all the gunn clan went over and raped the keiths granny and thats why they had to leave scotland! i was 6 and went into school the following day and told my teacher (an elderly nun) the whole story! mom was called into the school and was asked very politely to tell my dad to behave himself! mom was regularly called into the school and normally it was because of my dad and not us! pmsl but, yeah he used to pull the "lets have fun with the tourists" crap as well like telling them pog mo hoan was an irish greeting and it was very important to say it when ever they met an irish person! that one was hilarious we continued doing it for years in the end i don`t think there was a person in the country hadn`t used it at least once on a tourist, you would be sitting down in a pub and they would come in shouting pog mo hoan at everyone and the whole place would crack up!!!

    • @leeneufeld4140
      @leeneufeld4140 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your dad and mine would have been bff's :)

  • @matthewgilbert9881
    @matthewgilbert9881 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I love the times when Simon captures the befuddlement of Arthur Dent and combines it with the unfamiliarity and naïveté about earth of ford prefect.

  • @sherylcascadden4988
    @sherylcascadden4988 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    When I visited England in 1970, going up to the stones was still allowed. Ten year old me was thrilled, and I enjoyed that day immensely.

    • @FairbrookWingates
      @FairbrookWingates ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I do envy ten year old you that experience. Bad apples chipping at something belonging to all of humankind as if it were theirs alone ruined it for us all.

    • @AdamMansbridge
      @AdamMansbridge ปีที่แล้ว +2

      When I went in 2017 the dawn tour was allowed between the stones, but not allowed to touch them

  • @Gillemear
    @Gillemear ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Funny how nobody ever mentions Bru na Boinne, the megalithic tomb complex in the Boyne River Valley, North of Dublin. This site has three huge passage tombs and dozens of smaller ones but there is never any stupidity about alien builders, ley lines or other such rubbish. Anyone visiting Ireland, it's a must to see and I think Simon covered the most famous passage tomb, Newgrange, on one if his other channels. Whatever the case, I always have to laugh when these fringe theories completely miss it and other passage tomb complexes in Co. Meath, Co. Sligo and other locations across Ireland

    • @redhandtheblack
      @redhandtheblack ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Whoa! I have family in Ireland that live just the other side of Dublin from Brú na Bóinne, I think I now have an excuse to travel! :D

    • @Gillemear
      @Gillemear ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @paul wilson It's amazing mate. You'll love it. I make a trip there every year and it never gets old... excuse the pun 😳

    • @jessgunn6639
      @jessgunn6639 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      not to mention that it`s older!

    • @Ava-wm6cv
      @Ava-wm6cv ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'd like to see him cover the famine roads.

    • @Leeza3370
      @Leeza3370 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I've been there, it's beautiful! It was my favorite part of my trip to Dublin

  • @just4stringsandsteve
    @just4stringsandsteve ปีที่แล้ว +12

    American here. I have always felt the friendliness is a bit of a cultural "hey I'm not a threat to you" exchange. You hear "hey wonderful day isn't it?!". While we are actually saying "hello. I'm just trying to get a drink and get back to my car. Please leave me alone I am not prepared for a fight"

    • @decker528
      @decker528 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I make it a point to talk to any British tourists I see in the US just because I know they think it's weird for me to come up and talk to them 😂

  • @AstraRune
    @AstraRune ปีที่แล้ว +16

    My dad studied archaeology at Reading University many years ago, and he told me a theory one of his Professors had about why Stonehenge was so intricate and impressive. He believed that it was in competition with a different stone circle at Avebury, about 20-25 miles north.

  • @terryenby2304
    @terryenby2304 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Really enjoyed this one. I’ve never been to stone henge, but we have the Longstone on the isle of wight (6000 year old burrial site from the Neolithic period). I am not religious but I’m open to spirituality and religion I guess? Anyways, when I went to that site, and felt the age of the area… it was definitely very powerful. I totally get what Dave means!

  • @Werevampiwolf
    @Werevampiwolf ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Here's a hint for "trilithon" - tri means 3 and lith means stone. It means "has three stones"

  • @amandajones661
    @amandajones661 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    If Simon decides to start a new channel, it should be a medical channel and describe different interesting medical things.

    • @micmac274
      @micmac274 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He's done a couple of horrid diseases on Into The Shadows.

    • @shirleyzhang2489
      @shirleyzhang2489 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He's gonna learn so many new words

  • @michaelimbesi2314
    @michaelimbesi2314 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Rafts are probably the most plausible method. Boats are really good at moving heavy stuff, because it takes almost no energy and (thanks to archimedes’ principle) you can float 1 ton per m3 of water displaced. Some of that obviously has to go to the raft’s weight, but a raft of dry wood only a few logs thick could easily float a couple tons.

  • @michellemorningstar6610
    @michellemorningstar6610 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I went to stonehenge for summer solitce and was on one of the stones with a drum circle in the middle ❤ the stones are warm to the touch which was surprising . Summer solstice was wild 🤘🏻🖤🤘🏻

  • @davidallen111
    @davidallen111 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I haven't been to Stonehenge, or even England, but I have been to the astronomically aligned, full scale replica of Stonehenge located at Maryhill, Washington. The replica is of Stonehenge before it became a ruin.

  • @jasonhare8540
    @jasonhare8540 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Time team does an excellent deep dive on the entire landscape . I found it very interesting .

    • @AngeliqueStP
      @AngeliqueStP ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Tony Robinson appreciation comment here!

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    7:30 - Chapter 1 - What is stonehedge ?
    25:15 - Chapter 2 - Alternatives theories
    28:20 - Chapter 2.1 - Aliens

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ideas for videos:
    x Could the Pythia predict the future?
    x How were the Easter Island statues created and transported?
    x Were there flying contraptions in the past much earlier than the modern age?
    x Is random chance a myth?
    x Could certain people in the past live much longer than we do today?
    x Can a serious hex cause psychic death?

  • @victoriaeads6126
    @victoriaeads6126 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It wasn't aliens. It's never aliens. Or lupus. Except that one time it was lupus. 🤔 😂

    • @MCsCreations
      @MCsCreations ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lupus always lies.
      Wait...

  • @ryanmcmenamim9871
    @ryanmcmenamim9871 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You guys should look into the origins of Enochian, the Angelic Languange. It has a con man, infidelity and the chosen prophets questioning angels about buried treasure.

  • @CartoonHero1986
    @CartoonHero1986 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I can absolutely understand that feeling of having a "religious experience" even though you're not at all religious or spiritual. Atheist here and yeah I remember whilst at a Natural History Museum they had a iron nickel composite asteroid/meteor that would have landed on earth something like a few million years ago and was estimated to be something like 3 billion years old; and you could touch it! Realising I was touching something in nearly the same state it has been since it landed on earth millions of years before any of our species was even born and flew around in space as a once much larger object for billions of years was like getting to touch the material of a prophet's or god's robe or something. Not enough to necessarily have you "on your knees worshipping" it, but enough to put you into a state of "awe" that you're getting to make physical contact with something that ancient and important. There are few things on Earth I could ever be allowed to touch with my hands directly that would anywhere near as old as it was as an unprocessed chunk of ore, even now that is a little mind blowing; everything I had ever touched before that moment and everything I have touched since is made of materials exponentially newer or more recently composited than that meteor.

  • @joeyr7294
    @joeyr7294 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The carnac stones in France would be a nice follow up. Thanks for the content as always Simon and Co. 🍻

  • @LeifEriccson43
    @LeifEriccson43 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm so happy there was a Ylvis reference 😂
    Also I feel like the English speaking world knows of Stonehenge at least.

    • @SethoMarkus
      @SethoMarkus หลายเดือนก่อน

      WDTFS?

  • @jasonz9902
    @jasonz9902 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    12:33 Yeah back in the day we had to move blue stones uphill both ways in a snow storm.

  • @UKfeath
    @UKfeath 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    when i visited stonehenge for the first time, um around 2000, i wasn't surprised at how big it was. i was shocked at how _small_ it was. i expected it to be taller. walking around it is what made it feel large. that takes a while.

  • @frednone
    @frednone ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My only experiance with British tourists was a pair of ladies that I shared a bus with going into NYC, we got to talking and the big thing they were interested in is they wanted to get a typical American breakfast.

  • @justliam2768
    @justliam2768 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Don't flog me shit, Simon.
    It's getting like the Rusper car boot sale in here.
    Love you ❤

  • @firebry23
    @firebry23 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    College educated😂😂😂 Like that actually means something.

  • @TheSteveBoyd
    @TheSteveBoyd ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Time is really long."
    -Simon Whistler, 2023

    • @damiencouturee6240
      @damiencouturee6240 ปีที่แล้ว

      "'Time is really long.'
      -Simon Whistler, 2023"
      -Steve Boyd, 2023

  • @nanoglitch6693
    @nanoglitch6693 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I'll admit, I actually did kind of assume it was just some sort of elaborate stone calendar. But then when Simon mentioned aliens and the world energy grid, it just makes so much more sense and was so obvious that I feel like a total smooth brain now..

  • @aimeevanlandingham3844
    @aimeevanlandingham3844 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    And if you're ever near Yakima Washington USA, there is an exact replica of Stonehenge as it would have looked complete. Definitely worth a visit too.

    • @amichaigoldner3915
      @amichaigoldner3915 ปีที่แล้ว

      Goldendale washington, I visited a few years back. They also have a nice rodin art collection in the museum. Well worth a visit, not to mention great hiking.

  • @allie5
    @allie5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I am absolutely also a sceptical person and I believe the science/archaeology decisions about how Stonehenge came to be…… but if you are interested in Arthurian/Merlin legends the series of books by Mary Stewart has a wonderful realistic depiction of Merlin. He doesn’t have any magic powers (apart from some scrying/second sight type things very occasionally!) but is just a very intelligent man who received the absolute best possible education for a man in that time frame. The books say he didn’t build Stonehenge but instead raised the lintel stones from where they had fallen and laid a huge stone in the centre as a burial site for a king (not Arthur!) She describes him using a large workforce with ropes, pulleys and huge supporting framework to achieve what looked like (to the somewhat uneducated local workforce!) magic. She also talks about choosing to place the grave where it would be illuminated by the summer equinox. So no magic, no mysticism….. just a REALLY smart man surrounded by idiots! 😂

  • @staytuned2L337
    @staytuned2L337 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oh hell yeah. Just finished work. Perfect timing!

  • @rebeccathistle5359
    @rebeccathistle5359 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I was in a weird situationship a couple of years ago with this guy who believed wholeheartedly that Stonehenge was made by aliens, for aliens, and I was like, in my head, “Well, that’s a red flag.”
    Because I know for a fact that it wasn’t aliens. Well, it wasn’t aliens in the first century BCE anyways, before the Romans invaded. It was a place for honoring the dead, for seasonal celebrations and for community gatherings between the British Celtic tribes. And I know this to be true because I did a past life regression and I was there.
    Then again, I also think that my 4yo is the reincarnation of my favorite cat, so take my theory with a grain of salt.
    Let the big brains with degrees and, you know, evidence, guide your opinions. Not some random crazy person on the internet. Or on the “History Chennel”

  • @helenap8826
    @helenap8826 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What I wanted to be at age 11: a geologist
    What I am now: a geologist.
    Nothing ever convinced me not to be and rocks are great.

  • @jessicaleser8822
    @jessicaleser8822 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Seinfeld theme during the coffee discussion 😂

  • @ginnyjollykidd
    @ginnyjollykidd ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ah! Simon! You are always entertaining!
    I'm inclined to believe several ton stones were moved using simple machines. There is a video I love that shows this guy who specializes in moving this tonnage for a living making his own Stonehenge. One thing he shows at the beginning is a track built with hills and valleys such that a certain sized block moving into a valley with little starting momentum would have the momentum to climb the next hill and fall into the next valley and so on. If it stopped, a slight push would get it to continue.
    He set one of his blocks on a pebble and rotated it with a giant, wood caliper. To lift it,he ratcheted it up on a stack of 2X4's he stacked one at a time as he tipped the block to one side and then the other to slide in another 2X4. For the vertical pieces, he dug the hole and then made a diagonal chute from it to slide in and fall into the upright hole. The cross piece could also be lifted by the seesaw ratchet lifting tool.
    Most of his work used levers, but one used an inclined plane and pulleys, roped pails of concrete attached to the vertical piece which he could release to let the vertical piece slide into place.
    Lever. Pulley. Inclined plane. Three extremely powerful simple machines!

  • @NaysWays
    @NaysWays ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ah, The "History" channel, the "Alternative Facts" of the documentary industry.

  • @nerdman8428
    @nerdman8428 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As an American myself I can sympathize with someone being taken aback by how talkative we tend to be in random situations. It is something about us that drives me completely up the wall. Whenever I'm just trying to do a bit of grocery shopping and some random lady starts talking to me for thirty minutes about her grandchildren, I want to jump right out of a window.

  • @cindyscrazy
    @cindyscrazy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My dad watches some of Simon's videos on I don't know which of his 100 channels. I saw him watching one and said "Hey! I watch him too!" My dad responded...."I think he's a professor". I nearly choked before I started laughing. I explained that Simon has very intelligent people writing for him, but no Simon is NOT a professor.

  • @templarw20
    @templarw20 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “It would take me a long time.” Yup. But not as long as it took them. The Pantheon in Rome was a triumph, and probably some architect’s lifetime accomplishment… and modern architecture students probably do it for homework.
    People in the past weren’t smarter or dumber than people today. The tools were different, and they had to brute force a LOT of stuff. But the brute force WORKED…

  • @j.s.c.4355
    @j.s.c.4355 ปีที่แล้ว

    The calendar probably predates the stones. There were probably small stone or wood markers that pointed toward the solstices and equinoxes, and other significant dates, and these were probably perfected over the centuries of observation. Only then did some highly important person decide that blue stones should be stolen from a welsh henge and replace the existing small markers with something more impressive. IE: It’s not like they had to figure out the configuration while they were putting up the big stones.

  • @rachelpicheo8959
    @rachelpicheo8959 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    British People with children at Florida Theme parks are friendly. Especially if you explain to their children some Americanism. :)

  • @jasonschlencker8108
    @jasonschlencker8108 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ooooo maybe the aliens needed it to land on the flat earth like a beacon so they don't accidently try to land on the underneath side of the flat earth?
    RONFLMAO
    Great vid of a fascinating subject Simon.
    Regards, Jas.
    VK4FJGS

  • @cassandraunheeded
    @cassandraunheeded ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’m American and not always friendly.
    But I love Stonehenge. I lost my passport there and a lovely Englishwoman found it and returned to me.

  • @jjlpinct
    @jjlpinct ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's like Jeremy Clarkson put it together with his lamborghini tractor..

  • @lawrenceolson5351
    @lawrenceolson5351 ปีที่แล้ว

    I sometimes wonder if we have it correct as to who built all the megalithic structures in Europe. The weathering of the stones and states of deterioration make me think they might be much older and possibly built by a different species of hominid, specifically Neanderthals. They were far more clever than we give them credit for.

  • @saydvoncripps
    @saydvoncripps ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just a thought...ice moves stones. Big ones. Really far....the rocks in Central park, for instance. Then, all they had to do is bash them into shape and stack them up. But, they were wood workers, so it was never going to work. The utter tyrant (come on, no one was going to do all that work if there's not an utter bustard with whips around) died and everyone happily abandoned it.
    I had these thoughts looking at stonehenge for the few years I was posted to Salisbury plain while serving in tha army. Bloody boring place for a London girl, so, thought about it.

  • @ZAV1944
    @ZAV1944 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have a suggestion for a video on DTU Simon, It's about the Maco Light, an anomalous ball of light that appeared near the railroad tracks near Maco, North Carolina. According to the legend which goes back to the 19th century it's the ghost of Joe Baldwin, a railroad conductor who was decapitated in a train collision and returns to search for his missing head. Through out the years many have witnessed the light and explanations range from ball lightning to swamp gas, what is known is that the light disappeared in 1977 when the rails were pulled up and has never seen since.

  • @gardenshed6043
    @gardenshed6043 ปีที่แล้ว

    Looking at Stone Henge I always thought it might have just been something a group of lads thought up when high on shrooms which they then proceeded to go along with whilst high or drunk over the next while.
    They were probably high when they saw that monument with the stones from Wales and thought, “Why the fuck is this here? We should make one of these to confuse someone else. That’ll be funny. Let’s do it near Mike’s house.”

  • @jrmckim
    @jrmckim ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Aw man I miss the longer episodes

    • @bboops23
      @bboops23 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Last night I listened to a few of his Uber long ones

  • @michaelstone5298
    @michaelstone5298 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Back during the Victorian and Edwardian eras and before that many people thought that it was Merlin to answer your question. It was only in the early twentieth century when more credible archaeological digs were John there that they found out it was much older. of course to their credit they consider Merlin to have been a powerful priest or priest/Chieftain not really supernatural!

  • @jessepippin9698
    @jessepippin9698 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Americans also find it weird if random people come up to you and start up a conversation without prompt. If you are wandering why then some Americans do that, it's because they're weird.

  • @BarbaraEllison
    @BarbaraEllison ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My uncle Bob built it, he hauled the rocks on a trailer he pulled with his truck. If you think that's something you should see what he built in Eygpt!

  • @kyab2815
    @kyab2815 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I see your skull crusher coffee and raise you more than 100mg of caffeine per 8oz with death wish coffee.

  • @FSMDog
    @FSMDog ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice spelling of Salisbury PLANE (facepalm)

  • @121Corey121
    @121Corey121 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    30:41
    Simon if I was taking a drink when you said this, my drink would be all over my phone and bed..😭

  • @SonjaHamburg
    @SonjaHamburg ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wasnt impressed with stonehenge at all! You are in a large stream of tourists. You have to pay to then only walk by it and i remember a street being next to it that you have to cross after paying. The most un-spiritual experience. but i was a kid

  • @kennethcrenshaw317
    @kennethcrenshaw317 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh no, none of these are correct. It was Earth benders trying to protect themselves from the fire nation. Isn't it obvious? Lol

  • @timothyneiswander3151
    @timothyneiswander3151 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well it's painfully obvious that it is a landing pad for alien space craft. It certainly explains all the dead burnt bodies.

  • @TheKalaxis
    @TheKalaxis ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Maybe it was Aliens cracking the whip to hurry up the stupid humans so they could recharge their ships sooner 😂

  • @Hiforest
    @Hiforest ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'd not rule out that humans were proficient stone masons a lot longer than they've been credited with. If they were capable of stone henge, then it makes sense if there were a lot more examples of stone work. They have been lost to time.

  • @usMarinecuv902
    @usMarinecuv902 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As an American I feel most of us know the name Stonehenge and a picture of it, but that's about all I know about it

  • @MCsCreations
    @MCsCreations ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In this case it wasn't aliens, it was the dinosaurs. 🤨

  • @timalder8940
    @timalder8940 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You should ask one of your contributors to do a piece on "Wood Henge" ... and that did have a roof!

  • @ComedorDelrico
    @ComedorDelrico ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "I'm definitely going to know some of this stuff *IF* I remember it" is basically the running theme of my life.

  • @The101Rurple
    @The101Rurple ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Simon trying to remember the name for Taj Mahal is like anybody asking me ANY QUESTION UNDER PRESSURE, and my mind PANICS, even though I know the answer! 😂😂😂 Loving the quiz show music that Jen (I assume it's Jen editing) put on this for that segment!

  • @dfuher968
    @dfuher968 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love history. Im old enough to remember, when the History Channel was about actual history. Suffice it to say, I havent watched the "History" Channel for many many years. RIP.

    • @theConquerersMama
      @theConquerersMama ปีที่แล้ว

      In the 90s, it had some great programming.

  • @emily.toombs
    @emily.toombs ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've been to Stonehenge and according to Google maps it's 5,388 miles away. This makes it basically in your backyard you should definitely go. I went on summer solstice and so too was granted permission in the circle and was able to touch the stones. I had a similar overwhelming feeling and I definitely think it was do to time. I’ve never seen anything this old or incredible.

  • @LeifEriccson43
    @LeifEriccson43 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Like, without the wheel, I can't imagine how difficult it would be to raise the stones, let alone place the ones on top. Absolutely mind blowing.

    • @Horvath_Gabor
      @Horvath_Gabor ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The thing is, people tend to have this idea that the wheel was "invented" out of thin air by some smart guy. In reality, it was the result of a long strings of inventions. When you put a heavy thing on a bunch of tree trunks and roll it, it is mechanically the same as a wheel, just less efficient and more cumbersome, so the process got optimized over a long time until you get the first "proper" wheel, most likely attached to some kind of rudimentary cart.
      For bonus points, since rolling like that uses "unworked" wood, it wouldn't be preserved, and unless it's an already established civilization with writing and/or paintings depicting the process, there's literally no way to tell whether the technique was used. Sure, it's considerably less sexy than alien anti-gravity devices, but infinitely more probable.

  • @b3ans4eva
    @b3ans4eva ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My dad went on a school trip to Stonehenge & the only thing he remembered about it was losing his nice pen.

  • @coolcutiekitti17
    @coolcutiekitti17 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I got to go inside the circle on a university trip when I was 18 and I could literally feel the energy of the place. It’s still one of the most incredible experiences of my life and I’m 35 now

  • @GrievousReborn
    @GrievousReborn ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yeah Ancient Aliens theories stem from the incorrect belief that people from the past were idiots

  • @killielila
    @killielila ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i love Simons Vessi sponser reads i know Simon is pretty good at not taking sponsers he doesnt use but Vessi seems to be his spiritual moment ... i love my shoes 😮

  • @bboops23
    @bboops23 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    7:52 saying Taj Mahal before he even says that palace in India because it was the first other Civ 6 wonder to come to mind

  • @eeeeeeee60
    @eeeeeeee60 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I definitely had it confused with Easter Island, and was VERY confused where Dave lives.... and how on earth Simon would drive by it on the way to work 🤦🤦🤦

  • @jannetteberends8730
    @jannetteberends8730 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for mentioning Ylvis. Never heard of them, so curiously I checked the song Stonehenge. It’s really funny, and it also sounds good.

    • @RichardWatt
      @RichardWatt 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They also did "What does the fox say?"

  • @BrilliantDesignOnline
    @BrilliantDesignOnline ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Aliens: "It was a long 350 million LY trip: We cannot land because some tourists have taken some of the landing pad stones."

    • @BrilliantDesignOnline
      @BrilliantDesignOnline ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Luckily Dave's dad is supervising the completion of the (roof) landing pad; It is totally true because I saw it on CNN.

  • @johanneskaiser8188
    @johanneskaiser8188 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Noone who is not certain becomes an archaeologist. Simple fact. 😅
    Also, Arthur likely did exist. But all that can legitimately be assumed is that he was a briton military leader who fought the saxons.

    • @sekaramochi
      @sekaramochi ปีที่แล้ว

      Dude after studying ancient legends and weapons. I didn't become an archaeologist
      But a master assassin x

  • @apanapandottir205
    @apanapandottir205 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Time is really long." - Simon Whistler

  • @fredblonder7850
    @fredblonder7850 ปีที่แล้ว

    The stones are connected by lintels, which are made of . . . lint.

  • @MsMorri
    @MsMorri ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think that the Arthurian legend was considered to have some truth to it until fairly recently. I'm not sure if Geoffrey's book actually mentions historical people, but at least some of the Arthurian legends do mention some historical events and people. However, Arthur, Merlin, and the round table didn't exist.

  • @Marauder99991
    @Marauder99991 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm from the US and I totally know what Stonehenge is. It was in Spinal Tap.

    • @SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish.
      @SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish. ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thought I was the only who kept thinking of that throughout this whole video 😂

    • @Marauder99991
      @Marauder99991 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish. Nah, man, we're both old. You can tell because your name and my reference were both from the 80's. :D

    • @SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish.
      @SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish. ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Marauder99991 They just don’t make ‘em like they used to… am I right?? 😂

  • @nymphrodellsalavin
    @nymphrodellsalavin ปีที่แล้ว

    Of course I know what stonehenge is. I'd love to go sometime (I'm an American)

  • @atlanticx100
    @atlanticx100 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember going there in the 70's when you could touch the stones. I can remember seeing the writing on the stones from the 1800's lol.

  • @captainanopheles4307
    @captainanopheles4307 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Simon is talking about the southern English. Everyone else on the island is friendly and will chat to you.

    • @erraticonteuse
      @erraticonteuse ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Likewise, the Americans being talked about are not from the Northeast. We are as uncomfortable with random chats as Londoners are.

  • @BruceBoyde
    @BruceBoyde ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The second Whistler video I got to within 3 minutes of posting today! I'm on my way to being a legend.

    • @staytuned2L337
      @staytuned2L337 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'd say that's worthy of a "you legend"

    • @MCsCreations
      @MCsCreations ปีที่แล้ว

      Ok...

    • @craigstoner2632
      @craigstoner2632 ปีที่แล้ว

      You need to raise your bar, in defining legend......

    • @staytuned2L337
      @staytuned2L337 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@craigstoner2632 (it's a whistleverse thing,) ohh cmon mate, lighten up

  • @schipperkesandhonoraryschi8515
    @schipperkesandhonoraryschi8515 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I reckon Australians will chat to anyone when overseas as well, so Aussies in America is rather wonderful 🤣

  • @zeroDOTjon
    @zeroDOTjon ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I would like to request that you normalize the sound of your videos to be louder. I listen at work a lot and half of your videos are too quiet for me to hear over the machines in my shop with headphones on at Max volume

    • @Kyamusuku
      @Kyamusuku ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, I thought it was just a me problem!

  • @heathervanpelt7981
    @heathervanpelt7981 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I hate all the small talk you're expected to have in the United States. I look down everywhere I go in hopes no one will try to talk to me 😂

    • @PeterParker-fx9dl
      @PeterParker-fx9dl ปีที่แล้ว

      Same, but sometimes I catch myself "mean mugging" people instead of looking down. I can't stand that small talk nonsense! It's a lot of work for me to mask my awkwardness, and all for nothing. But I'll stop to talk and listen with a stranger about various life experiences from their unique perspectives pretty much effortlessly.

  • @peterchestnut4566
    @peterchestnut4566 ปีที่แล้ว

    I bit off topic, but do you have a video where you talk about fairies?

  • @frankboogaard88
    @frankboogaard88 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It seems to be quite easy to move stone slabs using only pebbles. Just throw a ton of pebbles in front, have several people pick up the ones in the back, etc, etc ;)

  • @michaelmayhem350
    @michaelmayhem350 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In before the lizard people & aliens 😂😂

  • @colosine
    @colosine ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't think I know anyone who isn't at least familiar with stone hinge

  • @jjlpinct
    @jjlpinct ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I don't know how I can love and hate someone so much as I do Simon.

    • @snufkinhollow318
      @snufkinhollow318 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I get that mixed response too!

    • @jjlpinct
      @jjlpinct ปีที่แล้ว

      @@snufkinhollow318 As I'm off to watch his most recent Mega projects.

  • @JulianDanzerHAL9001
    @JulianDanzerHAL9001 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    10:08
    why would anyone even do that?
    it seems it would be way easier to get away with selling fake ones than to get away with stealing them

  • @michaelphillips1267
    @michaelphillips1267 ปีที่แล้ว

    The day that I went to Stonehenge it was raining and the wind was blowing the rain sideways. I lost some of it my interest in the place.

  • @Video-Game-OST-HQ
    @Video-Game-OST-HQ ปีที่แล้ว

    Brexit:
    When I lived in the UK I would walk outside and there would be people with papers saying not to vote for Brexit. When one of them finally approached me and tried to give me a pamphlet and asked me to vote No on Brexit I replied, “Okay, I’ll vote No in your election if you go vote No against Donald Trump in my election.”