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Previously on America Unearthed. The hot
text proves that the Knights Templar
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came to America before Columbus.
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I believe the Templars evolved into
modern day Freemasonry. But there's one
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piece to this puzzle, the Newport Tower.
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The history that we were all taught
growing up is wrong.
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My name is Scott Wolfe, and I'm a
forensic geologist.
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There's a hidden history in this country
that nobody knows about.
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There are pyramids here, chambers,
tombs, inscriptions.
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They're all over this country.
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We're going to investigate these
artifacts and sites, and we're going to
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the truth.
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Sometimes history isn't what we've been
told.
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Rhode Island is the smallest U .S.
state, but home to one of America's
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mysteries,
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the Newport Tower.
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28 feet tall and made of thousands of
intricately placed stones.
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No one knows who built it, when, or why.
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Some people think it's a colonial -era
windmill or watchtower, but I don't
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it looks anything like colonial
architecture.
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I think it's proof an ancient group of
explorers sailed here from Europe in the
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1300s. They're called the Knights
Templar.
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The Order of the Knights Templar was
created by the Catholic Church in the
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century to protect Jerusalem during the
Crusades.
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But during that time, they became
increasingly powerful.
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Too powerful, according to the King of
France.
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He banned the order and had many of the
knights executed.
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But others are said to have fled with
something that I think is very important
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to Christian beliefs.
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The Holy Grail.
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The Grail is thought to be the cup that
Jesus drank from at the Last Supper, or
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perhaps symbolized hidden secrets.
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I think the Templars brought the Grail
to North America.
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and the Newport Tower is proof that they
were here.
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It's an explosive theory, and it's
brought me head -to -head with academics
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experts like Jim Egan, curator of the
Newport Tower Museum and an authority on
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the structure.
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If I can convince Jim that I'm right,
then maybe academics can be convinced
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This is no question my favorite pre
-Columbian site in North America. Pre
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-Columbian? You still into that Templar
thing?
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Yes, I definitely am.
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And, I mean, come on, Jim, take a look
at it. They built many churches in
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exactly like this. Oh, really? Okay. And
you've got the round cylinder sitting
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on eight round heavy columns, equally
spaced, the round Romanesque arches, and
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the capstone ledges clearly for
structural support for a first -story
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ambulatory all around the building.
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It's exactly identical to what they
built in the 12th century, and they
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here, of course.
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There are many churches in Europe with
connections to the Templars.
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They incorporate architectural elements
also found in the Newport Tower, and
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they were built at the time when the
Templars were around.
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Mellifont Abbey in Ireland.
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The Round Churches throughout Bornholm
in Denmark.
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And the Cambridge Round Church in
England.
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But Jim Egan has a different idea.
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Everyone comes to the tower with their
own theory. But I studied Rhode Island
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history, and I came across a chapter in
Rhode Island history that very few Rhode
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Islanders even know about.
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You still on that John Dee thing?
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Well, I am, as a matter of fact.
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I've come across John Dee in my
investigations before.
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He was a talented man of many trades.
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Astronomer, mapmaker, and advisor to
Queen Elizabeth in the late 1500s.
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Jim says that Dee designed the tower in
1583 and had it placed in Newport to
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help the Queen establish a land claim
here in America.
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But I don't buy it.
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This fellow John Dee was not only the
navigational guide, he was the architect
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of this entire plan to colonize the New
World, and I'd claim he was the
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architect of the tower.
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Jim, I know you like this 1583 date, but
there's no way that the tower was built
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then. Why? I found a map that has the
tower on it that dates to 1569.
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This map was drawn by Gerardus Mercator
in 1569.
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And it was one of the most significant
maps of its time.
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And he was the first one to coin the
term Atlas for a collection of maps.
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And we have what is a sort of crude
depiction of the northeast coast of
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America. But here we have Narragansett
Bay.
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And take a look right there on the east
side of the bay in an area roughly in
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the area of Newport.
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Looks to me like a church.
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looks very similar to the Newport Tower.
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Well, why would he draw a square tower
instead of a round tower if this is a
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depiction of the map of that tower?
Well, this has got a conical -shaped
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here, so that indicates to me that it's
a cylinder and that it's round.
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We have a stone tower that appears to
have a first -story ambulatory around
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tower.
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It's an exact duplicate.
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of Cambridge Round Church, which looks
exactly like that, but still has the
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ambulatory attached.
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The fact that we have the tower depicted
on this map proves that the tower was
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here before 1569. I think it was here
long before that, but clearly it's
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depicted here on a map prior to John Dee
and your whole thesis.
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That's just sort of representation of
cityness. It has nothing to do with the
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tower.
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I think that maybe what we should do at
this point is just respectfully agree to
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disagree. I'll agree with that.
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Even if the map evidence didn't convince
him the advantage I have over Jim is
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that I'm a geologist.
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I know rocks.
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Of course, being a geologist, as you
know, the things that I'm going to
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gravitate to are... The rocks. The
rocks, yeah. And, you know, I've been
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lot of research into different aspects
of this, as you have, and I'm very
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interested in the two keystones, the
only prominent keystones in the tower,
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egg shape here and the notch keystone on
the outside.
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Keystones often have a special shape.
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They're used in buildings to connect the
center of an archway.
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They also have an architectural purpose
and sometimes serve as a signature of
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the builder.
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I will agree that these rocks are
significant. This egg -shaped rock here
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very significant because, as you know,
on the winter solstice, the sun comes up
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and about a half an hour after it shines
through the west window, it illuminates
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that rock with a box of light on it.
Very dramatic.
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It is a very important thing in the
sense that this building is a calendar.
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Not only to keep track of all of the
days of the year, but most importantly,
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days like Easter. And you know what the
symbol for Easter is that goes all the
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way back to the Mesopotamian times?
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The egg.
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I don't really think that John Dee was
related at all to the Templar. They have
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the same tradition of sacred knowledge.
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And you don't think there's a connection
at all?
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Well, the Templars pretty much got
obliterated, most of them, in the 1300s.
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John Dee was 1500.
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We're talking 250 years later.
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You mentioned that the Templars were put
down and destroyed, right? Right.
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Okay, you understand the concept that
you can kill people, right? Right. But
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you think you can kill an ideology or a
belief system? Sure, again, they come
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and go all of the time.
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Well, I maintain that that ideology
continued on in secret.
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And the information is out there, and
more and more of this information about
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these secret societies that evolved from
the Knights Templar.
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I think the Freemasons are the modern
-day keepers of Templar secrets.
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Many of our nation's founders, such as
Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, and
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George Washington, were Freemasons.
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The society still exists today, with
many prominent men continuing these
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traditions.
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And we see a lot of symbols in our
society that I think are shared by both
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Templars and the Freemasons.
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To me, this is all evidence that their
ideology lived on beyond the people that
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started it.
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I'm convinced this is a Templar
structure. It's got the architecture
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on. It's got the archaeoastronomy
features that we know the Templars
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and would incorporate into their ancient
structures.
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We've got the solar alignments and, of
course, the illumination. We've got
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symbolism. You've got the egg shape, the
Master Mason's keystone. We read
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different ways, but that's okay.
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But there's something else about the
Templars that's very important.
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They had a reverence for the planet
Venus.
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Venus to them and to many other ancient
cultures was a physical manifestation of
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the goddess in the heavens.
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Very, very important.
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So if this was a Templar structure...
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There should be Venus alignments in this
tower, and that's what I want to try to
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test. I'd like you to help me take some
measurements tomorrow.
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Are you up for it? Let's give it a test.
I'll bring my ladder. Hey, thanks a
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lot, Joe. We'll see you in the morning.
See you in the morning. Take it easy.
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It's been almost five years since I
started thinking there could be Venus
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alignments in the tower.
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I seem to find clues to my Templar
theory every time I'm here.
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I should have known this trip would be
no different.
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Hey, Paul, this is Scott Walter. Hey,
Scott.
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Hey, listen, do you remember that piece
of Cumberland that we looked at in your
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house that night it was there?
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Yes. Where did you find that again?
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Well, I found that on an island north of
Newport called Prudence
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Island.
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Prudence Island.
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Well, I tell you what, I think I just
found a piece.
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I know I found a piece here in the
Newport Tower.
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Really?
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Well, I have some ideas. Could we maybe
go there and take a look and see if we
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can find another piece? Yeah, sure.
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Sure. Where do you want to go? As soon
as possible.
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The Newport Tower in Rhode Island is a
mysterious structure.
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I believe it proves that some of the
history we've been told about America
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who discovered it. is wrong.
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I think this tower was built by the
Knights Templar in medieval times as
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fled Europe with the Holy Grail.
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And a key piece to this whole
investigation could be a piece of rare
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Cumberlandite. I think that finding a
single block of it placed in the Newport
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Tower is incredibly significant and
could be hidden evidence of Templar
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and a trademark of their presence.
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I'm meeting my buddy Paul, who knows
where to find Cumberland and can help me
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show how this clue connects with the
temples.
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Now, we're going to Prudence Island.
Prudence Island is the second largest
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island in the Bay.
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These islands are so strategic and have
this rich history, and it certainly
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makes sense to me that the Templars
would have been exploring all around the
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Bay, and they certainly could have found
that piece of Cumberlandite that's in
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the tower.
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So, Scott, why are you so interested in
the Cumberlandite? Well, there's a piece
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of Cumberlandite in the south column of
the Newport Tower. It seems to be
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strategically positioned.
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And I don't think that's an accident.
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And the reason I think that that stone
is there is that the Templars who built
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the tower, I think, would have revered
this stone. And the reason for that, it
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has some very unique properties.
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Cumberlandite is a magnetic rock formed
in only one place, Cumberland, Rhode
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Island. Glaciers have moved some of it
to Narragansett Bay.
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The rock was also thought to have
spiritual power and known by some as the
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of the Goddess or the Stone of Venus.
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Venus and all it represents was
important to the Templars, meaning its
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in the tower could help prove who built
it. If we can find some of this
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Cumberlandite here on Prudence Island,
this could be another important piece to
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the puzzle that ties the Templars with
the Newport Tower.
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Now you see these rocks.
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This is where you'll find it.
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So what we're looking for is a black
rock with white.
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See, these are barnacles. But it looks
similar. It's very subtle.
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Look at that one.
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You know, that feels pretty heavy.
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And that kind of looks like...
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The stuff you have here. You can feel
it. Yeah. I think you may have found
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Well, I tell you what, let's do the
surefire test.
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I got the magnet here. Now, it should
pull this. It didn't pull that, but
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I mean, it's definitely.
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Let me see. Yeah.
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If the Templars found Cumberlandite here
in the bay across from Newport.
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it makes sense that they would have used
it.
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This is because Cumberlandite is
sometimes called the Stone of Venus.
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And I think Venus was very important to
Templar beliefs.
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There might be another connection
between the Knights Templar and
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In northern Rhode Island, in Cumberland,
where Cumberlandite has been found,
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there was a Cistercian monastery.
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It has since burned down, but...
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Aren't the Cistercians and the Templars
connected?
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Absolutely they are.
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And there's a Cistercian monastery here.
They're extremely rare in the United
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States. And to have one here in Rhode
Island, I don't think is a coincidence.
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In 1128, the Knights Templar Order was
founded by a Cistercian monk, a guy by
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the name of St. Bernard de Clairvaux,
who wrote the charter for them that was
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based on the Cistercian charter.
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And that's when they became an official
order. Of course, they existed before
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that. But to have a Cistercian monastery
associated with the
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Cumberlandite, to me, can't be a
coincidence. And to have the
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associated with the Newport Tower, well,
everything seems to be connecting.
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And that's the reason why this
Cumberlandite is so important to me.
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So I have a picture of the Cistercian
monastery, and I suspect they might find
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Cumberlandite in that as well.
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Here are those photos of the Cistercian
monastery in Cumberland.
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Look at that. Well, this is perfect.
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It looks just like Cistercian abbeys
that I've seen before. This is a classic
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layout, no question about it.
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And this is where the Cumberlandite
source was, right?
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That's right.
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What's interesting is that the
Cistercians and the Templars had a
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with the Virgin Mary.
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You can see the name of the monastery is
named Our Lady of the Valley. I mean,
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every one of these monasteries was named
in honor of Our Lady. The physical
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manifestation of the goddess in the
heavens to them was the planet Venus.
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And they revered the planet Venus, and
they kept full track of its movement.
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I believe there's no question that Venus
was central to what the Templars
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believed.
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Cumberlandite was the stone of Venus,
and Templar beliefs centered on it.
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And I think there are Venus alignments
in the Newport Tower that I believe show
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that Templars built it.
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And now I've got an experiment that
could prove it.
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I think that the Newport Tower in Rhode
Island was built by the 9th Templar long
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before Columbus came here.
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Now, I'm going to try and prove it. I
already know that the style of
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architecture matches other Templar
structures.
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And in the tower, I've discovered the
use of Cumberlandite, a rare rock that
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symbolizes the planet Venus.
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Cumberlandite could be another clue that
the Templars were here because of the
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rock's connection to Venus.
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Venus is a symbol for the female. It was
likely an important symbol for the
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Templars because it represented
something their leadership believed in
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strongly, that men and women were equal.
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These ideas put them at odds with the
church and were part of the reason for
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their exile and execution in 1307.
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Because of the importance the Templars
placed on Venus, they tracked it in the
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sky and used it to orient their churches
and other structures as a physical way
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to represent their revolutionary
beliefs.
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And I think they used Venus alignments
in this tower.
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Some, including Jim Egan, think I'm
wrong. So I have to try and prove that
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alignments are really here.
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Okay, Jim, so here's what I think is
going on on that upper floor.
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Now, you see that window right there on
the west side?
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To my knowledge today, nobody knows why
those windows are there, correct?
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Not really. There's not much information
up there on the second floor. Well, I'm
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absolutely certain that those windows
were used for making observations of the
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planet Venus. Well, what's so special
about these windows? I think there's
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going on here.
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Okay. To many ancient cultures going
back thousands of years and certainly to
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the Templars, they revered it from a
spiritual sense.
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Okay. So Venus represents the goddess in
the heavens. And so it rises before the
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sun and then the sun follows. Many of
these ancient structures, they would
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actually capture the light of Venus. How
do you mean capture it? Well, they
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would capture it by focusing it through
a very small aperture like we have in
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the tower. Yep.
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And the light would come through and it
would be captured by some type of
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receptacle that would reflect that light
of Venus and bring the goddess into the
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room, so to speak. We might have that.
Maybe on the winter solstice, the light
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of Venus coming through and possibly
being captured in the niche on the west
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side above our keystones.
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You'll never see that nowadays.
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All of these lights are pollution from
the city. You're right about that. I
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think it's going to be very difficult
for us to see what they saw going back
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the 12th century.
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However, what I think we can do is to
see if there is an alignment that would
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allow that to happen. There may be a
specific day of the year when that
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the winter solstice perhaps, where the
light will go through that window at an
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angle of about 22 degrees, and then the
light will... fit the backside of that
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niche throughout the six months that
venus is in the southeastern sky during
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winter anybody looking through that
window could make observations of the
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venus it would be in a perfect position
for that okay for six months when it's
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an evening star during the summertime
you look through that west window you
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could make observations for six months
during that time we might also have a
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similar type of capture of the light
inside of a niche coming from the west
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that will come through at roughly the
same angle and hit somewhere on the
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of the tower. But think about this. When
we have the light coming from the east
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and the light coming from the west, it
crosses. Not at the same time, but
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throughout the year, we get this
crisscrossing X symbol, which I find
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interesting.
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This cross.
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which forms an X, is a symbol I've seen
on many artifacts that I think were left
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in America by the Knights Templar.
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In fact, it was on an artifact called
the Narragansett Runestone, only about
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miles from here, that was stolen and
that state authorities are trying to
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I think the symbol was the Templars'
trademark, and finding it here in this
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bay, so close to the tower, is more
evidence they were here.
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To see if my alignment theory works, I
need to measure the angle of the niche
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from the window.
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I know that Venus appears in the night
sky at an angle of around 22 degrees on
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the solstice.
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And if there's a straight line from the
niche up through the window towards
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Venus, then it's another clue that the
Templars built this tower.
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So I'm going to use my Brunton compass.
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my geologic compass, and I'm going to
try to measure that angle.
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What angle do you get?
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That angle's around 25 degrees.
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It's a pretty teeny sliver. How are you
going to be able to see through that?
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The engineering of this tower was very
precise, was it not?
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Yeah, all these things are special.
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We've got the alignment of Venus coming
through that window down to this niche.
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We've got when it's a morning star, when
it's an evening star, it comes through
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that window up there, down somewhere
here on this wall perhaps to that niche,
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and it makes an X. And if we can show
that.
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That'll be another piece of the puzzle
that proves that the Templars built this
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tower. You know how we're going to
figure it out? Well, we have to come
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here on the winter solstice.
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I'm back in Rhode Island, heading to the
Newport Tower.
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It's been two months since I was here
preparing for what I think is going to
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a spectacular alignment with the planet
Venus.
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Clearly seeing Venus in the night sky is
important to proving this is a Knights
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Templar built tower.
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But during the winter solstice, the
stars may only align for a short window
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time, the days either side of the
solstice.
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Modern ambient light pollution means
that the light of Venus won't ever be as
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bright as it once was.
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I'm going to use fog and lasers to show
how I think the shafts of light would
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have penetrated the window and hit the
niches on the tower wall.
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You know, Jim, I know you think John Dee
built this tower during Elizabethan
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times. 1583.
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But you're wrong.
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Well, why?
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I'm absolutely convinced that the
Knights Templar built this tower.
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And if this Venus alignment works the
way I think it will, it's absolutely
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to solidify the true history of this
tower and who built it.
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All right, so how is it going to work?
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We're going to take our laser and put it
up inside that niche and shine it up
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into that window to replicate the light
of Venus.
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I brought a fog machine, and we're going
to fog up the inside of the tower.
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So when we get the lasers crossing,
we'll be able to see them, and they will
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make an X.
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That X symbol represents the essence of
the ideological belief system of the
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people that I believe built this tower,
the Knights Templar. In my mind, Jim,
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finding this X symbol in the Venus
alignment could only be the work of the
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Knights Templar.
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Let's see what this laser test of the
giant X is.
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You ready?
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Yeah. All right, let's do this.
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All right, green one's on.
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Position's good.
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Hey, look at that. The blue one's on.
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Hey, hey, hey. Whoa, look at that.
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And there's the X.
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The Venus alignments cross and make a
perfect X.
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Nobody but the Templars would design
this into a structure like this.
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I know. They were the only one with
laser light shows back in the 1200s. But
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that's what you think is going to
happen, that the light's going to shine
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through this into here.
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Venus is going to be up in a couple of
hours. Let's see what actually happens.
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All right.
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We're going to see the light come
through.
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You're going to love it. Let's see.
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If the weather is clear today, then I
can try and prove my theory.
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But if it's not, then I could lose my
shot.
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There's only a few days around the
solstice when I think Venus will line
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Well, there it is.
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We got lucky on the first day.
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Do you think the weather's going to
hold? Oh, yeah. I tell you what, if the
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light comes through the window and hits
that niche...
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And even if it's close, it basically
proves my theory.
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But I still think that it's going to
rise really low and be low in the sky,
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where the sun is about 26 degrees above
the southern horizon. I don't think it's
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going to go anywhere near your window.
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It'll be close, but does it hit it?
That's what we've got to find out.
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The clouds have moved in. I can't
believe it.
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Yeah, it's still a little cloudy on the
horizon there.
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It's starting to brighten up a little
bit because the sun's coming up.
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Damn it.
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It's like these clouds just came out of
nowhere.
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Damn it.
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Well, there's always tomorrow.
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All right.
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I guess we're just going to have to hope
for the sun.
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The stars only align for a short window
of time right around the solstice.
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But the stars aren't aligning for me.
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Seeing Venus clearly in the night sky is
important to showing other people that
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the Knights Templar built the tower.
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Rained out again.
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Yeah. Yep.
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It's almost 9 o 'clock and it's not
going to happen today.
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We've only got two more days.
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Well, I hear it might clear up tomorrow.
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If I have any chance of convincing Jim
and other people that the Templars built
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this, I need the weather to cooperate.
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Hey, honey.
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Hi, honey.
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How's it going out there?
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It's going terrible.
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This is the fourth damn day in a row of
just the worst weather I've ever seen
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out here.
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I mean, it's been cloudy just in the
most inopportune time. It's been
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and today it's cloudy, raining, and the
wind is blowing.
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You know, Janet, you and I both know
that these Venus alignments are
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there. We know the solar alignments are
there. And the only people that could
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have done this are the Templars.
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If this weather doesn't clear, though,
God, we have to find a way to prove
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Hang in there.
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Hopefully it'll clear up tomorrow.
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Hey, wait a minute.
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I just noticed something.
432
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What is it?
433
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It's a keystone in one of the archways
that has a very specific shape.
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I'll tell you what it means. It means
that no matter what happens with the
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experiment tomorrow, even if we get it
or not, I think we have a final piece of
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evidence to seal the deal.
437
00:32:58,580 --> 00:33:03,540
I've seen that keystone before, but I
just now realize where else I've seen it
438
00:33:03,540 --> 00:33:07,540
and how it might be another important
clue to solving this mystery.
439
00:33:45,899 --> 00:33:50,620
Finally, after four days of frustration,
looks like we're going to get a clear
440
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day. Yeah, to see Venus is going to
slowly rise.
441
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,940
And I think it's going to stay clear
because you can see all these other
442
00:33:56,940 --> 00:33:58,920
in the sky. So we should be good.
443
00:33:59,620 --> 00:34:00,740
Let's do it. All right.
444
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:08,080
Jim doesn't believe the Venus alignment
is going to come anywhere close.
445
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:13,139
Like a lot of people, he doubts my
theory that the Knights Templar came
446
00:34:13,139 --> 00:34:14,139
built this tower.
447
00:34:14,409 --> 00:34:16,889
But I'm about to try and prove they're
wrong.
448
00:34:17,790 --> 00:34:21,929
It's rising a little bit as we speak
here in the eastern horizon.
449
00:34:24,850 --> 00:34:29,469
I think Venus is still a little bit low
in altitude.
450
00:34:31,050 --> 00:34:34,070
I don't think there's any way this is
going to happen. I think it's going to
451
00:34:34,070 --> 00:34:35,810
much more further to the south.
452
00:34:38,270 --> 00:34:39,489
I can see Venus.
453
00:34:39,949 --> 00:34:42,969
If it doesn't hit the niche, it's going
to be damn close.
454
00:34:45,260 --> 00:34:49,060
You know what? I think it is a little
bit to the south.
455
00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:54,300
I think Venus is off to the right, to
the south, a little bit.
456
00:34:54,639 --> 00:34:58,520
So it's actually hitting over here,
behind me.
457
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:00,700
It's not going to hit my niche.
458
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:02,120
Damn it.
459
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:06,220
Yeah, it might not have hit your angle
that you were talking about, but it
460
00:35:06,220 --> 00:35:08,280
definitely is going to come through that
window someplace.
461
00:35:08,980 --> 00:35:13,320
What could explain that is the
possibility that...
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00:35:13,860 --> 00:35:17,960
The precision of these alignments is not
the same as it was in the distant past
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00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,740
when this was originally built. Even
though we didn't hit it today into the
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00:35:21,740 --> 00:35:23,700
niche, maybe in the past it did.
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00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:30,080
The axis of the Earth in relation to
Venus has changed in the past 500 years,
466
00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:33,720
and earthquakes may explain why things
no longer line up.
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00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,720
The Venus alignment may not have worked
exactly like I wanted.
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00:35:41,210 --> 00:35:45,150
But it's not the only illumination here
that tells me the Templars built this.
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00:36:01,610 --> 00:36:07,130
At 9 a .m., a time when Templar monks
would be at prayer, an incredible event
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00:36:07,130 --> 00:36:08,130
occurs.
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00:36:08,460 --> 00:36:11,700
The morning sunlight illuminates the egg
-shaped keystone.
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00:36:12,980 --> 00:36:16,720
And I think the way this happens is
something only the Templars would have
473
00:36:16,720 --> 00:36:17,720
engineered.
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00:36:50,380 --> 00:36:55,660
When the sun comes in to this womb, this
allegorical womb, with the egg in the
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00:36:55,660 --> 00:37:01,560
west archway, then the sunlight sends a
shaft of light into the womb and
476
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:06,360
allegorically fertilizes that egg on the
shortest day of the year. This is very
477
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:11,760
significant. And to the people that I
believe built this tower, the Knights
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00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:15,040
Templar, they embraced this sacred
feminine architecture.
479
00:37:16,970 --> 00:37:21,410
It's a wonderful allegory marking this
important day of the year.
480
00:37:32,170 --> 00:37:37,690
Well, Jim, I think we can agree that
this is not a colonial structure and it
481
00:37:37,690 --> 00:37:42,470
goes back at least hundreds of years.
Yep, I'm on to that one, Scott. Okay.
482
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:47,080
The more research that's done, the more
we're going to learn about this tower,
483
00:37:47,180 --> 00:37:50,600
because I think you'll also agree with
me that there's probably things going on
484
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,900
in this tower with these heavenly bodies
that we don't know about yet.
485
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,740
Astronomers, archaeologists, they would
have a field day with this. It's
486
00:37:56,740 --> 00:37:59,340
incredible. I don't know why there
aren't more of them that study it. I
487
00:37:59,340 --> 00:38:03,540
let's face it. The academic community
has dropped the ball, not just with this
488
00:38:03,540 --> 00:38:08,780
Newport Tower, but with many of these
ancient sites and artifacts that
489
00:38:08,780 --> 00:38:12,700
that people have been coming to what is
now America for thousands of years.
490
00:38:15,370 --> 00:38:19,810
And Jim, I really believe that the
society that the Templars envisioned was
491
00:38:19,810 --> 00:38:23,450
eventually laid out by modern Freemasons
over a period of centuries.
492
00:38:23,790 --> 00:38:29,250
And those symbols, the signs, are all
around us, hidden in plain sight.
493
00:38:33,070 --> 00:38:37,570
While waiting for the weather to clear,
I noticed a special stone in the tower
494
00:38:37,570 --> 00:38:41,210
that was in the shape called the Mark
Master Mason's Keystone.
495
00:38:42,110 --> 00:38:44,210
It unites the arch and the tower.
496
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:48,720
But it's also a symbol of unity used by
the Templars and the modern -day
497
00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:52,680
Freemasons, the group who I think carry
on Templar beliefs today.
498
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:57,900
This connection makes me certain that
these symbols, like the keystone, are
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00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:02,220
hidden all over America, sometimes right
in front of our eyes.
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00:39:02,500 --> 00:39:06,820
And I think the Freemasons put this
symbol somewhere very important to all
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00:39:06,820 --> 00:39:07,820
Americans.
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00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:36,100
I've seen that keystone symbol many
times, but there's only one way I can
503
00:39:36,100 --> 00:39:37,100
see it.
504
00:39:41,620 --> 00:39:43,580
Hey, Jim. Hey, Scott. How are you? Hey.
505
00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:25,220
Okay, Jim, here's what we're looking
for. This is a picture of a keystone.
506
00:40:25,220 --> 00:40:29,480
called a Mark Master Mason's Keystone,
and you can see that it's got these
507
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:30,980
notches here up at the top.
508
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:36,920
And if we can find this out here, I
think what it would do is not only prove
509
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:41,600
that the Knights Templar and the modern
-day Freemasons are connected, but it
510
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:46,600
would also prove that these two orders
were responsible for founding our United
511
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:47,840
States itself.
512
00:40:52,060 --> 00:40:53,060
Okay,
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00:40:59,980 --> 00:41:00,980
Jim, can you...
514
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:38,100
notches at the top, and that was his
honor to tie that structure together
515
00:41:38,100 --> 00:41:40,740
structurally and allegorically.
516
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:47,440
The gold flame represents illumination
or enlightenment, which is one of the
517
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:50,620
tenets of the people that I think built
this, the Freemasons.
518
00:41:50,900 --> 00:41:54,460
The Templars used the symbol before
them, and it's one of the many things
519
00:41:54,460 --> 00:41:59,240
connecting these two highly secretive
organizations together through history.
520
00:42:19,340 --> 00:42:23,440
All the clues that I've seen scattered
across our nation tell me something
521
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:27,220
amazing about who I think really shaped
our United States.
522
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:33,740
I believe the Templars came to the New
World and the Newport Tower is
523
00:42:33,740 --> 00:42:35,020
proof they were here.
524
00:42:35,740 --> 00:42:40,200
I think they came to America in search
of religious freedom and to escape
525
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:41,200
persecution.
526
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:46,420
In that way, I think the Templars set
the stage for countless others to
527
00:42:46,420 --> 00:42:47,420
for the same reason.
528
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:51,460
be them Puritan or Quaker, Jewish or
Muslim.
529
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:57,460
I think the Templars passed on many of
their ideals to the Freemasons, some of
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00:42:57,460 --> 00:42:59,820
whom were founding fathers of the United
States.
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00:43:00,740 --> 00:43:05,680
By incorporating their unique symbol
into one of the most iconic pieces of U
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00:43:05,700 --> 00:43:11,000
history, I'm certain both the Templars
and the Freemasons left no doubt they
533
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:12,900
were instrumental in America's design.
534
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:28,480
To me, the Templars, whose practices and
belief live on in modern Freemasonry,
535
00:43:28,540 --> 00:43:31,120
determine the very destiny of our
nation.
536
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,420
Next time on America on Earth.
537
00:43:36,820 --> 00:43:39,420
We found a treasure map here on this
island.
538
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:41,560
Are you telling me you just got a hit
for gold?
539
00:43:41,780 --> 00:43:43,200
Holy shit, what is that?
540
00:43:43,500 --> 00:43:44,680
Don't tell me what's a void.
541
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,280
We might have the Holy Grail right down
here.
542
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:49,140
Guys, it sounds something.
543
00:43:50,130 --> 00:43:54,550
If you have a mysterious artifact or
site I need to see, I want to know about
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00:43:54,550 --> 00:43:57,830
it. Go to history .com slash unearthed.
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