Randall Carlson
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Well, now we're going to stray into some exotic territory here. Cool. One of the things in my holistic big picture of our species on Earth is that we've been around doing stuff on this planet long before recorded history. Long before recorded history.
And, you know, I think the latest now, it keeps getting, I used to in lectures and stuff, see, you know, modern humans are now dated back to 140, 150,000 years. Well, and then I, well, then it was 180,000. They're finding skeletal remnants, whatever that looked like, hey, this looks like a modern human. The last I heard was maybe in Israel or Middle East somewhere.
I got to review this so I get up to date on it, but it might be as old as 200,000 years. But even conservatively, if we go 200,000 years, we're looking at maybe 7,000 generations of humans, modern humans. And in fact, a friend of mine sent me, that I interviewed, Martin Grant, oh, three, four months ago. He was telling me, you know, there's evidence that a lot of the
humans in prehistory actually had larger brains than we do. And I said, really? I hadn't really was not aware of that. So he sent me some articles. Yeah. 15% larger in some cases. And I'm going, okay, that does not seem to imply that they were dumber than us. Maybe they were smarter.
Maybe they weren't, but I mean, it certainly doesn't imply that they weren't as smart as us, but you figure if you look at the, since the scientific revolution, how far have we come since the days of Newton and Kepler and, you know. And how many generations is that?
Well, we can figure, say, three, four generations per cent. So 10, 12 generations, 15 maybe. I saw the old classic. Brian brought it up there.
Were they even the same species?
I mean, I know that's, when you interviewed Graham, did you talk about that? A little bit, a little bit. but he's done a whole lot more research on that than I have.
Interesting. So, I mean, it's, you know, there's, you know, there's, you know, I've been very interested in, in mound culture and monumental earthwork culture in, in America. Um, And so Emory University has a... has a whole collection of state reports and things from the 1800, even going back to the 1700s.
But, but during the 19th century, there was a lot of excavations of these mounds going on before, you know, the, the, the earthworks in North America. Now there's probably not 10% of the original when the Europeans arrived, urbanization, agriculture, railroad building, highway building, all of that is pretty much erased all, but about 10%. Well, so I went through a lot of these.
This is like 25 years ago now, maybe even longer. I went through a lot of these archives. And over and over again, I would read, you know, Dr. So-and-so and Reverend So-and-so were conducting, you know, an excavation of, you know, these mounds. And typically you'd read oftentimes that they would, for example, they would excavate and they would find a skeleton fairly shallow.
And then they would dig on down and they would discover older skeletons. And you could tell because the degree of decay. But then they would report things like, you know, they found skeletons of eight foot tall individuals. Right over in Etowah Mounds in Georgia that I've been to many times, taking field trips of people up there.
And they have a museum and you go in there and it's all about the excavation and all of that. Doesn't say anything at all about finding a large skeleton. Yet I procured the original report from like the early 1900s. Sure enough, they dug up and there was a skeleton in there about seven foot, six inches tall, something like that.
And I'm like, okay, why do they not have any reference to that at all? Here it is right in the original report, but they have no mention of it. And I kept finding it over and over. One was a report that they dug up a skeleton and one of the people involved there was able to actually take the skull and put it over like a helmet. Now that would imply somebody like 11 feet tall.
So I'm like, okay, wait a minute. They didn't have some internet back in those days, people trying to get hits. You know, are all of these like hoaxes? That's how they've been interpreted. Oh, these are just hoaxes, right? But there was just too many of them.
And now since then, there have been others who've done a lot more research than I did, who've documented over and over again the number of times when large skeletons of. Emanuel Swedenborg was on a dig in northern Sweden, and he reported on this that they found, you know, skeletons of individuals that were 12 feet tall. Did he make that up?
Well, you know, from my knowledge, Emanuel Swedenborg was not the kind of person who would make up something like that. You know, he was a highly respected person. scholar and all of this. So why would he do that? Mention it. So it seems to me that there is evidence for another race. And we'll consider when you go back into the Pleistocene and you start looking at the megafauna,
Over and over again, you see large, large animals. Everything was larger. You know, look at the imperial mammoth. It was 16 feet tall at the shoulder. Your modern elephants are eight, nine feet. You know, this thing was 16, I saw a skeleton of one they had in the Fernbank Museum about 10, 15 years ago. And they had to take the tiles out of the ceiling to set the skeleton up. It was so darn big.
And it's like, you're standing there and you go, my God, this thing was roaming around North America, you know, 15,000 years ago. You know, the giant cave bear, the giant short-faced bear, six feet tall at the shoulder, standing up on their hind legs, 10 and 12 feet tall. I mean, on and on and on, you know. So you go, okay, so is it so out of the question that hominids, humans may have been?
Very large. It doesn't seem so bizarre to assume that. No, it's not.
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