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Six stories from this week… hosted by Matt Barone.
An unclassified memo signed July 31st by Aaron Lucas waives NDAs for current and former employees and contractors with UAP information, letting them speak to AARO or the Pursuit Task Force. Congressman Eric Burlison, who released it, says it is unclear whether it covers congressional testimony and is advising anyone coming forward to bring a lawyer. The 30 day clock for agencies to name a designee started July 31st. Separately, a peer reviewed Nature study led by Martti Pärssinen at the University of Helsinki detected 432 earthworks across 4,500 square kilometres of Acre state, Brazil, with 396 previously undocumented, extrapolating to 24,000 to 30,000 earthworks built by the Akari civilisation, with a population estimate of up to 1.245 million at its peak between 100 and 300 AD.
Monday brought Dr. Francis Thackeray from South Africa, whose Wonderkrater platinum spike, now dated to 12,800 years ago, pairs with new work suggesting the impact may have triggered volcanism directly rather than the two being separate competing explanations. Tuesday, Chris Cottrell explained why he publicly reversed his five-year position that the Carolina Bays formed during the Younger Dryas, while still holding that Earth crossed an active stretch of the Taurid meteor stream. Wednesday, Brad Olsen covered Antarctica's more than 100 subglacial lakes, including Lake Vostok, and cautioned that possible city grid features detected in scans cannot yet be confirmed as artificial. Thursday, Maria Wheatley discussed Stonehenge's magnetically distinct Welsh bluestones and her research into Britain's elongated skulls. Friday brought four tour operators, Derek Olsen, Hugh Newman, Darren Grimes, and Graham Dunlop, for a wide-ranging conversation on ancient sites and life on the road.
George Howard's episode on comet versus volcano covered the Hall's Cave dataset dispute, where researcher Mark Young says a whistleblower gave him a complete original dataset showing an unpublished sample with platinum concentration four times higher than anything in the published paper. No verdict, a double-blind test is now underway. George also spent July 29th in the Senate hearing room where Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which voted 8 to 5 to advance a contempt of Congress resolution.
**CHAPTERS**
00:00 Introduction
00:35 UAP NDA waiver memo
01:32 Amazon earthworks discovery
02:36 Francis Thackeray and Wonderkrater
04:08 Chris Cottrell reverses his Carolina Bays position
05:24 Brad Olsen on Antarctica
06:26 Maria Wheatley on Stonehenge and elongated skulls
07:19 Four tour operators panel
08:11 George Howard's comet vs. volcano episode
09:31 Fauci Senate hearing
10:39 Closing thoughts
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Six stories from this week… hosted by Matt Barone.
An unclassified memo signed July 31st by Aaron Lucas waives NDAs for current and former employees and contractors with UAP information, letting them speak to AARO or the Pursuit Task Force. Congressman Eric Burlison, who released it, says it is unclear whether it covers congressional testimony and is advising anyone coming forward to bring a lawyer. The 30 day clock for agencies to name a designee started July 31st. Separately, a peer reviewed Nature study led by Martti Pärssinen at the University of Helsinki detected 432 earthworks across 4,500 square kilometres of Acre state, Brazil, with 396 previously undocumented, extrapolating to 24,000 to 30,000 earthworks built by the Akari civilisation, with a population estimate of up to 1.245 million at its peak between 100 and 300 AD.
Monday brought Dr. Francis Thackeray from South Africa, whose Wonderkrater platinum spike, now dated to 12,800 years ago, pairs with new work suggesting the impact may have triggered volcanism directly rather than the two being separate competing explanations. Tuesday, Chris Cottrell explained why he publicly reversed his five-year position that the Carolina Bays formed during the Younger Dryas, while still holding that Earth crossed an active stretch of the Taurid meteor stream. Wednesday, Brad Olsen covered Antarctica's more than 100 subglacial lakes, including Lake Vostok, and cautioned that possible city grid features detected in scans cannot yet be confirmed as artificial. Thursday, Maria Wheatley discussed Stonehenge's magnetically distinct Welsh bluestones and her research into Britain's elongated skulls. Friday brought four tour operators, Derek Olsen, Hugh Newman, Darren Grimes, and Graham Dunlop, for a wide-ranging conversation on ancient sites and life on the road.
George Howard's episode on comet versus volcano covered the Hall's Cave dataset dispute, where researcher Mark Young says a whistleblower gave him a complete original dataset showing an unpublished sample with platinum concentration four times higher than anything in the published paper. No verdict, a double-blind test is now underway. George also spent July 29th in the Senate hearing room where Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which voted 8 to 5 to advance a contempt of Congress resolution.
**CHAPTERS**
00:00 Introduction
00:35 UAP NDA waiver memo
01:32 Amazon earthworks discovery
02:36 Francis Thackeray and Wonderkrater
04:08 Chris Cottrell reverses his Carolina Bays position
05:24 Brad Olsen on Antarctica
06:26 Maria Wheatley on Stonehenge and elongated skulls
07:19 Four tour operators panel
08:11 George Howard's comet vs. volcano episode
09:31 Fauci Senate hearing
10:39 Closing thoughts
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![Matthew LaCroix Built a Megalith Database
Matt LaCroix joins Matt Barone to walk through years of research culminating in two newly created databases, and the broader thesis that a lost, highly advanced knowledge system underlies every esoteric and religious tradition that followed it.
His path into this field began with pioneers including Robert Schoch, John Anthony West, Robert Bauval, Graham Hancock, and Randall Carlson, and deepened through his own close working relationship with Schoch on an in-progress documentary. Recognising the absence of any rigorous, criteria-based catalogue for anomalous ancient sites, Matt created the Lost Civilisations Database, applying strict scientific criteria developed alongside researchers including Brien Foerster, focused specifically on stone hardness, masonry precision, and engineering sophistication inconsistent with the tools available during any known historical period. He cites Baalbek in Lebanon, officially credited to Roman builders despite megalithic foundation stones exceeding 1,300 tons, ranking it the second largest megalithic site in the world behind China, as a clear example of a signature that was never replicated again anywhere in the Roman world.
The chronology problem runs deepest at Gizas Sphinx enclosure, where Robert Schoch identified water erosion within minutes of his 1990s investigation, a finding still unaccepted because dynastic Egypt received no rainfall, meaning the erosion evidence forces a reconsideration of the Sphinxs actual age and the astronomical alignments associated with it, a chronological shift Matt believes the academic establishment resists because it would undermine decades of built institutional consensus. That question led him, alongside Schoch, archaeologists, and sacred geometry researcher Robert Edward Grant, to trace a set of specific, repeated symbols back to an origin point in eastern Turkeys Van region, mapped globally into a second database, the Ancient Code Database, which he believes decodes a lost, unified knowledge system of natural law, predating organised religion, describing the relationship between the physical and metaphysical worlds and the true scale of human significance within it. He is also launching a new podcast, the Lost Civilisations Podcast, with engineer collaborator Chris.
CHAPTERS
00:45 Introduction: Matt LaCroix and his background
01:25 The pioneers: Schoch, West, Bauval, Hancock, and Carlson
03:51 Introducing the Lost Civilisations Database
04:29 Brien Foerster and the criteria behind the LCD
08:30 Azimuths, alignments, and why tool sophistication is the key criteria
09:37 Announcing the Lost Civilisations Podcast
11:17 The Great Pyramid: 2.5 million blocks and impossible engineering
11:35 Connecting the dots: what happens when scattered data comes together
13:07 Baalbek: the second largest megalithic site in the world
15:02 The Sphinx enclosure and Robert Schochs water erosion discovery
17:47 Introducing the Ancient Code Database and the Van region origin point
21:20 A lost knowledge system: natural law before religion
22:19 Why Gobekli Tepe is comfortable and advanced masonry is not
26:31 Closing thoughts
GUESTS
Matt LaCroix — @MatthewLaCroix
Ancient Code Database - https://thestageoftime.com/acd-i
Lost Civilization Database - https://thestageoftime.com/lcd-i
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![Four Guides on the Ancient Sites They Cant Explain
Matt Barone brings together four of the most active tour operators in the ancient mysteries space, Derek Olsen of Megalithic Marvels, Graham Dunlop and Darren Grimes of Contact at the Cabin, and Hugh Newman of Megalithomania, for a wide-ranging conversation about the sites that keep pulling them back and what it actually takes to run these expeditions.
Each guest names their site: Derek picks Sacsayhuamán in Cusco, Peru, where stones weighing 200 to 300 tons fit together so precisely you cannot slide a hair through the joints. Graham and Darren both choose Easter Island, describing it as unspoiled by commercial tourism in a way few remaining destinations are. Hugh picks Karahan Tepe in southeast Turkey, a still-actively-excavated site where new discoveries surface on nearly every visit, and predicts a nearby unexcavated site, Yeni Mahalle, could eventually surpass Gobekli Tepe in scale.
The conversation moves into deliberate burial at both Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe, confirmed by lead archaeologist Necmi Karuls discovery of carefully placed sediment layers and megalithic flagstones, and evidence of intentional statue and pillar breakage before burial. The panel discusses parallels between Gobekli Tepes stonework and sites in Peru and Easter Island, cautioning that any global connection remains speculative until direct evidence emerges. Hugh details his geomancy and dowsing research, coauthored in a book on Earth grids, and references a spiraling magnetic anomaly discovered at the centre of Gobekli Tepes main enclosure, evidence he argues supports the idea that ancient builders were drawn to sites for detectable energetic properties before construction began.
Practical tour advice runs throughout: baby powder for Cambodias humidity, chapstick at high Peruvian elevation, and the community that forms around these expeditions, with active WhatsApp and Telegram groups from tours years past still running. Each guest closes with upcoming tour details: Derek to Peru and Bolivia in September, Egypt in December with a private two-hour visit inside the Great Pyramid, and Cambodia in January. Hugh to Ireland in August, India in January with Andrew Collins running a parallel Egypt tour, Maltas private equinox sunrise access, Turkey and Armenia in April, and Japan in May.
CHAPTERS
00:10 Introduction: the panel and what they do
00:46 Dereks pick: Sacsayhuamán, Peru
02:09 Graham and Darrens pick: Easter Island
06:01 Hughs pick: Karahan Tepe, Turkey
09:39 Global connections and symbolic similarities across sites
11:18 Deliberate burial at Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe
13:08 Practical tour advice: what to actually bring
27:00 Geopolymer stone theories and lost material science
30:13 Site energy, sacred geometry, and geomancy
32:11 The Gobekli Tepe magnetic anomaly discovery
1:04:20 Dereks upcoming tours
1:05:55 Hughs upcoming tours
GUESTS
Derek Olsen / Megalithic Marvels — [https://megalithicmarvels.com/tours/] - @MegalithicMarvels
Graham Dunlop, Darren Grimes / Contact at the Cabin — [https://contactatthecabin.com/] [https://grimerica.ca/] - @GrimericaShow
Hugh Newman / Megalithomania — [https://www.megalithomania.co.uk/tours.html] @MegalithomaniaUK
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