Brothers of the Serpent

After an awesome new SUNPROBE update and a few other interesting news items, we dive into the mystery of Edward Leedskalnin and his megalithic Coral Castle, the enigmatic Voynich Manuscript, and multiple cases of mass disappearances that have occurred throughout history. We also take some time to discuss the new emerging physics of Quantum Field Theory.       Coral Castle Sculpture garden at Coral Castle   The Tower at Coral Castle   Coral Castle Spiral Well Voynich Manuscript   Strange Flora of the Voynich Manuscript   "Magic Circles" of the Voynich Manuscript   Astrological Circles of the Voynich Manuscript   Naked Ladies in weird tubes. Note the calligraphic nature of the script  

We open the show with spaceweathernews about NASA making the "coldest place in space" using incredibly hot lasers, and giant rogue MagnePlanets hurtling through the interstellar void sucking up all the spacemetal. We then read a couple of articles regarding a new spate of mystery booms in Tennessee. Kyle proposes a brand new hypothesis involving a black hole and local time dilation and how that may be a possible explanation for why the rest of the universe looks so weird in some ways, and why alien civilizations seem to be scarce when they shouldn't be. We finish the show discusing the mystery of giant spiraling wheels of light reported seen in the oceans and seas around the world, and what their possible causes may be.  

We start this episode with some space news and space weather updates, salty puddles on Mars possibly containing bactaliens, and new low frequency Fast Radio Bursts, possibly from other, more intelligent, technologically advanced bactaliens. From there we move on to an article from  Mysterious Universe containing reports of many strange and bizarre encounters and experiences that people have had in the deep wilderness, which leads to discussions of carnivorous rocks and ufos and samsquanches and dead goats and smokesnakes.   Clearly this is ruins of the Castle Ahhhhhg     Octopus camo

In this episode we interview Mrs. Patti Canup from Rockwall, Texas, about the famous(some would say infamous) rock wall that has been found buried there all through the county since the pioneer days of the 1800s. The interview goes for about an hour, then we spend the final two segments of the show discussing the photographs and newspaper articles Mrs. Canup sent us along with some follow-up research we did on the geology and possible ancient connections of this enigmatic stone edifice. Conclusion? Somone built it, and they weren't called Nature.                                                         An actual natural sandstone dike   Another natural dike  

After a brief sun probe update we read a short article on weird spacewhale sounds coming from a moon of Saturn, which sort of makes sense because the moon is covered in water but is still pretty weird because the water is all ice.  We then spend the next few segments describing our most recent SnakeBros SnakeForce Field Trip where we drank hundreds of beers in a river named after the devil, found lots of amazing ancient artifacts and dozens of world-class fossil footprints, located ancient beach sand in the middle of the desert, ate tons of tacos and pancakes, and destroyed an innocent cloud with mind bullets. The mysteries we saw in the field lead us into a conversation about the larger mysteries of human habitation in the Americas, ranging from the controversial Huyatlaco site in Mexico to strange carved stones found in the northeastern U.S. Enjoy! Note: The following images are screenshots of the actual photos, which was done to mask the geolocation data in order to protect the landowner's privacy.  Note 2: The stock iPhone podcast app does not display images. iPhone users should use the following link to see the images: Episode 57 webpage This is one of the best sets of hominid prints   The "mine shelter". This is taken from across the canyon; the grassy area beneath the overhang is the ancient scree of gravel sliding down the hill from the shelter. Just like mine tailings of modern mines.       SnakeBros Cave Case - All the artifacts we found while digging Note the Neanderthal print outline, top center... ...now compare it to this print   Look at the center print, labeled Homo Erectus...see how the big toe is prominent while the other toes are missing....and the age given, 1.5 million years ....now compare that to this print...narrow profile, big toe prominent....   ....and another one, same profile, right foot instead of left   ....and another, right foot   This print is degraded by water erosion , but is still recognizable as a hominid print   Perhaps an animal print? Or a degraded human print, very small, wearing some kind of footgear   This looks like a very large human print, angled to the left, with a smaller print on its right side, angled right   Degraded but still visible, size normal for a human print   The lighter is next to a fairly clear print, notice all the degraded imprints around it   Prints and toe marks   I think this guy slipped a bit   Two prints side by side, right one larger than the left. Again note all the imprints around them, particularly the print on the lower right   Lots of prints, toes are clear in most of them   Very clear set of toe marks from a right foot. Forgot to place lighter on this one, dammit Large foot. Toe prints.   Small foot. Toe prints.   This and the following two images are of very similar large prints of similar depth and size, but I have no idea what they are       Mammoth? Or some other very large animal.    Another mammoth-ish print.   If this is a print, it is enormous. Forgot lighter, but the print was at least a yard long   Big print, some animal   The Hominid Path   The whole field of prints. Note the definite walking pattern of the large circular prints heading away from the camera. Note that they continue underneath the hill to the right, because it wasn't there at the time the prints were made   Incredibly deep, absolutely enormous print. Note the lighter inside the print to upper left   For comparison, here is a huge sauropod print from Australia Possible tail swipe between unidentified, degraded prints   What looks like fossil bone protruding from the solid rock A distant view of the shelter Russ hiked to   A closer view of the shelter, from the base of the hill it was on   The "giant coral brain" ceiling inside the shelter   On the left is the fossil found in the shelter, possibly of an ancient giant version of the Gastropod shell on the right. Beach sand from inside the shelter     Lighter inside a curve of petrified bark   More petrified bark or wood stuck to the side of a large boulder   Petrified wood protruding from stone Kyle walking along the wall where the rock paintings are in the mine shelter   Faint rock painting marks   Very faint but still visible   Almost looks like some kind of script. NONSENSE SIR THAT IS ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLY RIDICULOUS HOW ABSOLUTELY DARE YOU SIR     SnakeBros SnakeForce GO!!

We open the show with some snakenews about how scientists are going to touch the sun from behind a supershield from 4 million miles away. We talk about the superstition of "knock on wood" and where it came from, and Russ reads an article on Ouija and then flips out about bananas, which Brett explains is a berry that grows on an herb that looks like a tree with potatoes for roots. After that, we talk again about doppler and redshift and how the universe is probably not what we think it is.  

After a quick mention of the Lavanado in Hawaii being even more terrifying than a Sharknado, we will have been going to eventually then diving into a discussion about retrocausality and its wider implications for how it does previously later affect our future past actions. Once after we have will be finished that topic, we finally did eventually get our timeline straight by reading an article about the ancient Sumerian Kings List, which leads into a discussion on possible precessional clues and longevity of the gods and space genes. We finish out the episode discussing the carbon cycle and the fact that so much benefit to the biosphere has been shown to take place by increasing CO2 levels and thus massively increasing the awesomeness of plant life.  

We begin by determining the plausibility of excited soccer fans in Mexico causing a 2.0 richter earthquake by converting the total energy of the earthquake into equivalent Black Cat explosions and dividing that into the estimated number of excited soccer fans. At roughly 72 Black Cats per fan, we here at SnakeBros have deemed that this is a plausible explanation(given the estimated number of tacos and nachos consumed prior to the goal being made). Kyle then reads several excerpts from Forgotten Civilizations, starting a whole conversation about electromagnetic fields and giant blocks and glowing crystal obelisks and the Yuga cycle and longheads and Vimana and secret Nepha spaceships and space genes and smartwater and basically that magnets can help you read minds and explode meteors over Russia and build pyramids and grow space genes. Also, Dolmens are involved. Somehow. Anyway hopefully you still have your appendix. Enjoy the show.  

After reading an excellent email from Mr. England about the simulation hypothesis, Russ reads a section from Dolmens: Part 2 in an attempt to show why he didn't understand wtf the author was trying to say even though it's clear the author does know a hell of a lot about those dolmen.....things. Kyle reads an excerpt from Dr. Robert Schoch's book Forgotten Civilizations about 12ft giants on Easter Island that moved the Moai statues by the simple expedient of allowing the volcano to explode and blow them all over the island. We go through three excellent Mine The Hive articles, on the Michigan Mines, evidence of precolombian contact with the Americas, and the London Hammer. We laugh about how uniformitarians explain away the latter by totally discarding uniformitarianism.... but you know, just that one time. Which is also very un-uniformitarianesque(we are allowed to make up words here at Snakebros). We finish off the show with some select axioms about truth-seeking and conspiritards. The Newberry Tablet Newberry Tablet Script Ship Petroglyph One of the mine entrances Handprint in stone, possibly of one of the miners. The hand is....kind of large. Just sayin'  

Russ starts the show with a fantastic headline from the Flat Earth Society and then proceeds to flip out about aptronyms. Kyle then reads an article that points out that humans can live on Mars provided they are in space suits. We then turn to the topic of dolmens, the fact that over 90,000 of them have been found around the world, they are precisely engineered, are of uncertain age, and have no known function. We(mostly Kyle) gives several possibilities as to the function of these mysterious ancient constructions. After explaining that we'd love for people to help us pay to go get lost and die, we wrap it up with an overview of the picture of the ancient world that we have been outlining throughout the past 52 shows. Thanks for sticking with us this far, and enjoy the show!