can we make these two sitting down and just sharing facts a regular thing please??? always loved history hit and a long time listener of NSTAAF so this was just perfect!
My grandmother would often tell me the story of the ball lightning that entered the house one day, it came in through an open door and then disappeared up the chimney. She was so terrified of lightning after that that if there was a storm she would lock herself in a windowless storage cupboard and wait there until the storm had passed. She was an otherwise thoroughly sensible woman and I never had any reason to doubt her story.
I’m truly amazed by Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. The settlement was inhabited from c. 9500 to at least 8000 BCE, during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. So they had a massive structure that was built before agriculture and settlements were supposed to have existed. We’ve always thought that it went - hunter-gatherers, settlers and agriculture AND THEN temples but now Göbekli Tepe blows that idea out of the water !! They were making temples and art BEFORE agricultural settlements were a thing… It’s truly amazing and forces us to reassess our beliefs about the Neolithic period completely.
"Darling, we're never going to be hungry again!" Dan Snow exclaimed to the Lady Edwina Grosvenor, successful criminologist and philanthropist, and daughter of the 6th Duke of Westminster... Sorry I enjoy the videos, but that one made me chuckle.
First Emperor of Chinas tomb is my favourite. The fact it’s just sitting there and we’re pretty sure it’s unlooted and massive but it hasn’t been excavated super intriguing.
One of the reasons that it is not excavated is because myth and modern geological readings say it’s rife with liquid mercury . More importantly however , I think that the Chinese government is afraid that the tomb would prove to be far less grand than rumored to be , thereby exposing China first dynasty as merely mediocre in comparison to other ancient societies .
Dennis Wheatley wrote a book called "Strange Conflict" in 1941 in which the whole basis of the plot is the use of magic and the occult in the early parts of WW2
Dan Snow - "Ten thousand people died" Dan Schreiber - "That's nice!" Made me laugh that part, sorry. Excellent work guys. Could listen/watch these all day. Thanks. Interesting what you said about Netflix too. I call Netflix the 'Adult Dummy' and yes I have a subscription.
The Forrest Fenn treasure hidden in the Rocky Mountains is another great tale. Recently found in 2020, the hidden chest reportedly held over $2M in gold nuggets, coins, jewelry and gemstones.
Like my mother's grandparents' villages. As far as I can figure it out, their ancestors were German and Austrian settlers sent to establish a claim by their respective empires in Ukraine. My grandfather's education was a mix of Polish, Russian and German, depending on which country was claiming it at the time. Much of the family emigrated to get away from conflicts and revolutions.
Jesus Christ, this was fantastic, I mean, I get it. I'm late to the party, but omg... absolutely engrossing if nothing but for the sake of just stoking that inner child we all have who still is fascinated by the extraordinary.
I heard the gold train thing back in the 70s in various countries. A old Perry Mason episode had a sunken treasure of Nazi gold episode in a lake as well :)
Hang on, "It became the first ever global treasure hunt" what about that Seagrams campaign? Also there's another one of those somewhere in the American west.
Helen Duncan, the last witch, was arrested in my sister’s old living. One of the photos of her seance with the papier-mâché spirit was very clearly taken in there
One more thing: Isn't there rather well-known footage of American and British soldiers unloading art treasures from Goering's boxcars? It's not gold bullion, but close.
friend of mine was a radio technician at butterworth in malaysia with the australian airforce..he told me of an evening the rf from the very high powered military transmitters and the humidity he thought ..generated several plasma balls floating around inside the transmitter room..which eventually dissipated..
My mum saw a ball lightning pass through the house once. She is one of the most rational people I know, so I know she actually saw it. I have seen some ball-esque lightning which looked like a normal lightning but with balls coming down it, like a string of pearls. It stayed for a few seconds, so it wasn't the instant flash of a normal lightning.
Shower curtains? Really? Guys, The hot water you're showering in heats the air, it rises and cooler air flows in from a lower point. Curtain is pushed in. Next.
My sister and I witnessed ball lightning years ago while waiting for the school bus one morning. It flaired out of a huge powerline, then guided across the sky above us away frome the lines. Then, after about 10 seconds, it faded away. Freaked us out, brought it up to our dad, and he taught us about ball lightning. It was a misty, humid morning.
Speaking on the subject of the missing treasure hordes of dead pharaohs...I'm always curious about the people who looted those tombs. Did they become rich and powerful after the fact? Did they squander the loot? You would think that stealing that much treasure would make one fantastically wealthy - so you'd also assume that would mean the person or persons would be semi famous.
Egypt was a cashless society until about 500 BCE therefore you couldn't sell anything you robbed for cash, nor could you really use it in ordinary trade. ('Can I give you Ramses the Greats silver chariot for ten sacks of grain please?"). Of course treasures such as gold and other items could be easily recycled, but people were caught all the time, tomb robbing was a crime still reported. Still, all you needed was a corrupt official, who rather than punishing a tomb robber would confiscate the artefacts found and just let the tomb robber go, meaning that he now could use the ill-gotten gains for his own use in the system. And the tomb robber would go on doing his thing, meaning a constant flow of wealth for the system. (This has been attested in actual Egyptian writings)
Realistically the stuff that went missing during WW2 is probably somewhere (more likely not accessible anymore because of bombings). Most Art work that went missing is probably far beyond fallen apart. I'm sure there are lakes with some minor stuff chucked into them or for some reason isn't realistic to dive. Hell maybe there's a sunken ship that simply hasn't been found that was holding everything.
I doubt that there's a massive hoard somewhere because there were too many sticky-fingered people on all sides. Fascists feel entitled to skim something for themselves. The Russians would have wanted bits and bobs to make up for what they'd lost. Various members of the Allies would have been lifting souvenirs. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if part of the Amber Room was in a secret collection in the mansion of a Texas millionaire.
I’m with Dan on King John’s treasure. There’s a very lucky farmer out there somewhere, assuming they dig in the right spot. Also, Love’s Labour’s Won by Shakespeare, now there’s a missing manuscript
My father whose childhood was spent in Lindsay Ontario Canada, told me about time ball lightning entered their farmhouse by the back door and left out the front. He said it never happened again.
I've been s journalist for over three decades now, and I don't understand how you "get the rights" to a story that everyone on earth already has. (This sounds snarkier than intended, damned comments section.) BTW, Dan's little account of how he prepared to meet the Nazi gold train story is priceless, because I was once a young chaser of the career-making story, too. It never, ever works out as we envisage it.
They controlled the real estate: you needed the Polish government's permission to get at the actual train. Sort of obvious actually. I guess you qualify as yer normal avvidge journalist, the guy who makes up some text without bothering to get the most elementary facts of the story.
That area is famous for scams like this, gold, money, vodka, some kind of investment/buying the rights/etc scam, and there were corrupt politicians, so it has a patina of legitimacy. Luckily he was smart enough to realize, when he met the contacts.
If it's any consolation, it came of as more "comically ignorant" than snarky. You have to be informed to be snarky, not just someone with a lot of experience in not knowing things.
Sometime around 1954-56 I estimate from what I remember of my mother repeating the story & we moved to Western Australia around then - we lived at 49 Gardeners Avenue, Ryde, Sydney - a ball of lightning came down the street, I’m unsure of the rest of her story but it involved our house or the neighbour’s opposite. I was born in 1949.
A lost relic I would love to hunt down is the Temple menorah, possibly last seen in Constantinople after 533 CE but was definitely in Carthage after 455 CE.
I think you are right there. My thoughts are; leg it from the tide to safety, King takes a turn for the worse, a small number of nobility go hunting or exercise their horses, but secretly head back at low tide, the heavy carts of the day would not have moved that much in one tide, load the jewels onto pack horses, secret them somewhere, return to base, wait until King dies, split the proceeds.
Your legend of the Psychic woman fighting the Nazis and being bombed by the Luftwaffe sounds very much like Dion Fortune. Her Magical Order, the Society of the Inner light performed meditations of attacking Germany on the Astral Plane. At one point during the blitz the house she was staying in was bombed. A book about it is "The Magical Battle of Britain" by Gareth Knight. Gareth was famoulsy part of the order, had access to the societies archive and knew people who were involved in the "working".
I’m 42 when I was a boy I remember my grandmother saying in thunder storms to open the doors and windows and cover the mirrors in the house with towels or sheets.
dig a hole in England and find roman coins, Saxon gold or a buried ship. did a hole here in the States and find more dirt. Ah, but I still have my dream of uncovering an ancient native American casino. great video
in ‘sconset, next door a ball of lightning went in a upper window hit the electric guitar being played & then when out the other window. guy was stunned, but un-harmed.
That anecdote about the psychic during WWII sounds like a distorted memory of Dion Fortune, the occultist, who did indeed attempt psychic warfare against the Nazis.
My choice of mystery in history are 1. Foo fighters/Roswell/Area. 51 2. Where is the Amber Room 3. Who betrayed Nathan Hale 4. What happened to the Roanoke colony
Coopers gold. Amazing story, in fact he used sesitive magnetic sensors on the capsule to detect metal objects in the Caribbean. Like anchors and cannon from shipwrecks. The sensors were there since the space mission was to overfly cuba looking for missiles. A lot later a friend obtained the maps worked out where some of the x marked the spots were and found shipwrecks and treasure. There was a really great program on Discovery.
I seen ball lightning when I was younger along with my Mother, Father and adult sister. I always thought it was just rare not semi mythical. It descended relatively slowly and struck the ground in the fields in front of my sisters house and just disappeared.
my friend Andy Mills the esteemed senior Concorde pilot had ball lightning come through his windscreen at Mach 2 drop to the floor between him and the co-pilot roll backwards towards the door go through the door and roll down back down the gangway between all the passengers.
I grew up in Wroclaw, stories of missing Nazi gold were still very much alive even in the 90s. These were particularly rampant around Owl Mountains, where Nazi underground complex Riese (Giant) is located, which I believe Dan is talking about. Some sections are open for public but I also explored some parts that would be potentially deadly unless you were well equipped and had your wits about you at all time, so you don't suddenly step into 45 feet hole in pitch darkness. For me missing treasure I hope one day will resurface is definitely Amber Room (or Amber Chamber as you would call it in Poland). I sometimes wonder if it's on secret display somewhere. Even from drawings it looked incredible. But I take into possibility that it was just cut into pieces and sold off as just amber.
In Canada, we don't have a check box for 'Is he Lucky,' but we do have one for speaking French, which is lucky, because you can't become a senior officer if you don't.
my great gg grandfather jumped out the windows of hazlitt's in 1817..with a gold pocket watch he stole suposedly..transported the sydney the following year..became the first french baker in australia he fought with napoleon at waterloo..Hazlitts was then in the french quarter he eventually had a hand in bringing down governor darling back to england
I've heard of the cocaine mummy dinner parties. The only problem with that is that the cocaine was WITHIN the tissue. Meaning that the mummies in life, had to have ingested it when alive. The cocaine wasn't up top. But inside the flesh of these pharonic people. 🤔😋
Actually..... tomb of alexander the great, the library of alexendria, cleopatras tomb potentially, things we know we should be able to find... cos we would all love to find eldorado!! Or atlantis!!
If I could find one treasure it would be that set of keys to my front door that disappeared like 15 years ago. Actually, I would really like to know what happened to it because HOW it was lost is a bit of a mystery. Some sources claim it was my dear mother who lost it while other sources get rather upset and say I *censored* lost it all on my own.
I would have thought that the answer to shower curtains was pretty obvious. But there, I am only a 78 year old history graduate. What would I know.? Love the programme though.
I'm from Wroclaw, Poland. Greetings. Although "golden train" story was fake, I believe there are places in Lower Silesia, especially in the mountain part of it, where there are WW2 Nazi loots are hidden. It's kind of common knowledge here. There are many impressive underground constructtions, like "underground city" Osówka, and other parts of "Riese" complex. Somebody estimated the amount of concrete used to build that comlex, and it shows, that there was a lot more concrete used by Nazis than the amount used for the objects we know about. Therefore there are probably underground tunnels or even "cities" within mountains, which are still hidden. There are many stories about "guards" who were SS-mans appointed to guard that area. They pretended civil Poles, but after their death in their houses SS-uniforms were discovered in secret closets. There are beautiful houses or palaces which were burned after the war and puropsefully neglected in order not to draw attention to certain places or to diminish the human traffic around certain areas. In my oppinion there are real Third Reich loots hidden here, and there's a lot of it.
An enjoyable discourse. I have experienced what I think must have been Ball Lightning and also recall my Mother telling me of her experience not dissimilar to that recounted by @MargaretUK below.
can we make these two sitting down and just sharing facts a regular thing please??? always loved history hit and a long time listener of NSTAAF so this was just perfect!
I totally agree with that 👍
Yeeesssss!!!!!
HUGE CRITIQUE :
This program was far too short. Need MORE!!
My grandmother would often tell me the story of the ball lightning that entered the house one day, it came in through an open door and then disappeared up the chimney. She was so terrified of lightning after that that if there was a storm she would lock herself in a windowless storage cupboard and wait there until the storm had passed. She was an otherwise thoroughly sensible woman and I never had any reason to doubt her story.
I’m truly amazed by Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. The settlement was inhabited from c. 9500 to at least 8000 BCE, during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. So they had a massive structure that was built before agriculture and settlements were supposed to have existed. We’ve always thought that it went - hunter-gatherers, settlers and agriculture AND THEN temples but now Göbekli Tepe blows that idea out of the water !! They were making temples and art BEFORE agricultural settlements were a thing… It’s truly amazing and forces us to reassess our beliefs about the Neolithic period completely.
Please more of this format! Great fun to listen to.
Really enjoyed that! Need to see these two together again.
Great to see Dan Schreiber here. A fascinating conversation! Thank you Dans both. ⭐⭐👍
"Darling, we're never going to be hungry again!" Dan Snow exclaimed to the Lady Edwina Grosvenor, successful criminologist and philanthropist, and daughter of the 6th Duke of Westminster...
Sorry I enjoy the videos, but that one made me chuckle.
They'd struggle without the money he brings in.
Brilliant. Thank you. Love these sorts of videos.
Biggest Unsolved Mysteries why do they sell Hotdogs in packs of 8, and the buns in packs of 6?????
We have packs of 6 here... but we are too rational... we have metric too.
Absolutely loved listening to this, such an interesting conversation!
'The admin of curses' is a delightful phrase.
Using ground mummies for paint is another mind-blowing thing from the Victorian era. Daftly weird.
First Emperor of Chinas tomb is my favourite. The fact it’s just sitting there and we’re pretty sure it’s unlooted and massive but it hasn’t been excavated super intriguing.
One of the reasons that it is not excavated is because myth and modern geological readings say it’s rife with liquid mercury . More importantly however , I think that the Chinese government is afraid that the tomb would prove to be far less grand than rumored to be , thereby exposing China first dynasty as merely mediocre in comparison to other ancient societies .
Dennis Wheatley wrote a book called "Strange Conflict" in 1941 in which the whole basis of the plot is the use of magic and the occult in the early parts of WW2
I need more of these two! this was incredible. It could have went for 2-3 hours! Thanks!
Dan Snow - "Ten thousand people died"
Dan Schreiber - "That's nice!"
Made me laugh that part, sorry.
Excellent work guys. Could listen/watch these all day. Thanks.
Interesting what you said about Netflix too. I call Netflix the 'Adult Dummy' and yes I have a subscription.
Nice conversations and thrilled watching video about selected Mysterious matters in selected history periods...thank you (History Hit) for sharing
The Forrest Fenn treasure hidden in the Rocky Mountains is another great tale. Recently found in 2020, the hidden chest reportedly held over $2M in gold nuggets, coins, jewelry and gemstones.
Hi Dan, excellent discussion with some interesting thoughts. Thank you.
The train story sounds like the Geraldo / Capone fiasco
6:45 My grandmother's village was sometimes in Poland, sometimes in Russia, and sometimes in Germany depending on which army was occupying it.
Like my mother's grandparents' villages. As far as I can figure it out, their ancestors were German and Austrian settlers sent to establish a claim by their respective empires in Ukraine. My grandfather's education was a mix of Polish, Russian and German, depending on which country was claiming it at the time. Much of the family emigrated to get away from conflicts and revolutions.
Very good episode. Cheers!
Jesus Christ, this was fantastic, I mean, I get it. I'm late to the party, but omg... absolutely engrossing if nothing but for the sake of just stoking that inner child we all have who still is fascinated by the extraordinary.
Dan Snow is a thumpingly good chap.
Loved this
I heard the gold train thing back in the 70s in various countries. A old Perry Mason episode had a sunken treasure of Nazi gold episode in a lake as well :)
Nice Work & Video 👍
Hang on, "It became the first ever global treasure hunt" what about that Seagrams campaign? Also there's another one of those somewhere in the American west.
this guy said a lot of questionable things lol
Discovery of the Endurance would be right up there....
@@bluebellwood4287 who knows where you might find that
12:49 I am 💯 onboard with this. I have been excited since “purple” last year lol. 😉
Helen Duncan, the last witch, was arrested in my sister’s old living. One of the photos of her seance with the papier-mâché spirit was very clearly taken in there
One more thing: Isn't there rather well-known footage of American and British soldiers unloading art treasures from Goering's boxcars? It's not gold bullion, but close.
Are you thinking of scenes from the movie "Monument Men"? No train with Nazi looted art has ever been found yet.
@@lucyfoster8624 I didn't see the movie. I did, however, read "Monuments Men."
Hey Dan. Love your work 👍
friend of mine was a radio technician at butterworth in malaysia with the australian airforce..he told me of an evening the rf from the very high powered military transmitters and the humidity he thought ..generated several plasma balls floating around inside the transmitter room..which eventually dissipated..
That was great. Some I had heard of previously and some I hadn't.
Same here. It’s new rabbit holes to go falling down lol
Congrats on the 1mil subs guys
My mum saw a ball lightning pass through the house once. She is one of the most rational people I know, so I know she actually saw it. I have seen some ball-esque lightning which looked like a normal lightning but with balls coming down it, like a string of pearls. It stayed for a few seconds, so it wasn't the instant flash of a normal lightning.
I hope they can do a short video about the treasure they mentioned.
Some of them I never hear of, really wanna know more.
Shower curtains? Really? Guys, The hot water you're showering in heats the air, it rises and cooler air flows in from a lower point. Curtain is pushed in. Next.
Love you Dan glad to see the fish staff getting some more mainstream appearances
Ball lightening, it's funny how sightings of these things dry up when mobile phone cameras are around.
The same with the now even more elusive Sasquatch.
People finding patterns where none exist and then believing they have found a connection is a peculiarly human brain feature.
Historians are my rockstars
I did not expect these two worlds of mine to clash.
My sister and I witnessed ball lightning years ago while waiting for the school bus one morning. It flaired out of a huge powerline, then guided across the sky above us away frome the lines. Then, after about 10 seconds, it faded away. Freaked us out, brought it up to our dad, and he taught us about ball lightning. It was a misty, humid morning.
Speaking on the subject of the missing treasure hordes of dead pharaohs...I'm always curious about the people who looted those tombs. Did they become rich and powerful after the fact? Did they squander the loot? You would think that stealing that much treasure would make one fantastically wealthy - so you'd also assume that would mean the person or persons would be semi famous.
Egypt was a cashless society until about 500 BCE therefore you couldn't sell anything you robbed for cash, nor could you really use it in ordinary trade. ('Can I give you Ramses the Greats silver chariot for ten sacks of grain please?"). Of course treasures such as gold and other items could be easily recycled, but people were caught all the time, tomb robbing was a crime still reported. Still, all you needed was a corrupt official, who rather than punishing a tomb robber would confiscate the artefacts found and just let the tomb robber go, meaning that he now could use the ill-gotten gains for his own use in the system. And the tomb robber would go on doing his thing, meaning a constant flow of wealth for the system. (This has been attested in actual Egyptian writings)
Realistically the stuff that went missing during WW2 is probably somewhere (more likely not accessible anymore because of bombings).
Most Art work that went missing is probably far beyond fallen apart.
I'm sure there are lakes with some minor stuff chucked into them or for some reason isn't realistic to dive. Hell maybe there's a sunken ship that simply hasn't been found that was holding everything.
I doubt that there's a massive hoard somewhere because there were too many sticky-fingered people on all sides. Fascists feel entitled to skim something for themselves. The Russians would have wanted bits and bobs to make up for what they'd lost. Various members of the Allies would have been lifting souvenirs.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if part of the Amber Room was in a secret collection in the mansion of a Texas millionaire.
Very fun show!
Dan Sniw is a worldwide treasure.
I’m with Dan on King John’s treasure. There’s a very lucky farmer out there somewhere, assuming they dig in the right spot. Also, Love’s Labour’s Won by Shakespeare, now there’s a missing manuscript
My father whose childhood was spent in Lindsay Ontario Canada, told me about time ball lightning entered their farmhouse by the back door and left out the front. He said it never happened again.
Too brief ! Loved this
Luck has been studied. Business success is totally dependent on luck, not hard work, not brilliant ideas, not best product but luck and timing.
I've been s journalist for over three decades now, and I don't understand how you "get the rights" to a story that everyone on earth already has. (This sounds snarkier than intended, damned comments section.)
BTW, Dan's little account of how he prepared to meet the Nazi gold train story is priceless, because I was once a young chaser of the career-making story, too. It never, ever works out as we envisage it.
They controlled the real estate: you needed the Polish government's permission to get at the actual train.
Sort of obvious actually. I guess you qualify as yer normal avvidge journalist, the guy who makes up some text without bothering to get the most elementary facts of the story.
That area is famous for scams like this, gold, money, vodka, some kind of investment/buying the rights/etc scam, and there were corrupt politicians, so it has a patina of legitimacy. Luckily he was smart enough to realize, when he met the contacts.
This comment came off as snarky as intended 😂😂@@David_Lloyd-Jones
@@David_Lloyd-Jones Another squawking, tiresome media -hater. Did some mean old journalist fail to write what you wanted to see? Aww.
If it's any consolation, it came of as more "comically ignorant" than snarky. You have to be informed to be snarky, not just someone with a lot of experience in not knowing things.
"Curses work, if you believe they work." That means they don't work.
Sometime around 1954-56 I estimate from what I remember of my mother repeating the story & we moved to Western Australia around then - we lived at 49 Gardeners Avenue, Ryde, Sydney - a ball of lightning came down the street, I’m unsure of the rest of her story but it involved our house or the neighbour’s opposite. I was born in 1949.
A lost relic I would love to hunt down is the Temple menorah, possibly last seen in Constantinople after 533 CE but was definitely in Carthage after 455 CE.
Dan, you're got a better chance of finding the Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great than the lost Crown Jewels in the Wash 🤣
I think you are right there. My thoughts are; leg it from the tide to safety, King takes a turn for the worse, a small number of nobility go hunting or exercise their horses, but secretly head back at low tide, the heavy carts of the day would not have moved that much in one tide, load the jewels onto pack horses, secret them somewhere, return to base, wait until King dies, split the proceeds.
Your legend of the Psychic woman fighting the Nazis and being bombed by the Luftwaffe sounds very much like Dion Fortune. Her Magical Order, the Society of the Inner light performed meditations of attacking Germany on the Astral Plane. At one point during the blitz the house she was staying in was bombed. A book about it is "The Magical Battle of Britain" by Gareth Knight. Gareth was famoulsy part of the order, had access to the societies archive and knew people who were involved in the "working".
well, Germany lost so...... :)
I’m 42 when I was a boy I remember my grandmother saying in thunder storms to open the doors and windows and cover the mirrors in the house with towels or sheets.
dig a hole in England and find roman coins, Saxon gold or a buried ship. did a hole here in the States and find more dirt. Ah, but I still have my dream of uncovering an ancient native American casino. great video
Arf!
in ‘sconset, next door a ball of lightning went in a upper window hit the electric guitar being played & then when out the other window. guy was stunned, but un-harmed.
I heard the Truing treasure legen in the early 2000's in Bletchley from a family who were born and grew up in Bletchley.
That anecdote about the psychic during WWII sounds like a distorted memory of Dion Fortune, the occultist, who did indeed attempt psychic warfare against the Nazis.
great first date guys ;)
🤣 the rock story is amazing... people are nuts. min 27:47
My choice of mystery in history are
1. Foo fighters/Roswell/Area. 51
2. Where is the Amber Room
3. Who betrayed Nathan Hale
4. What happened to the Roanoke colony
Imagine a dinner party with mummies and a ball of lightning. That would be cool.
Coopers gold. Amazing story, in fact he used sesitive magnetic sensors on the capsule to detect metal objects in the Caribbean. Like anchors and cannon from shipwrecks. The sensors were there since the space mission was to overfly cuba looking for missiles. A lot later a friend obtained the maps worked out where some of the x marked the spots were and found shipwrecks and treasure. There was a really great program on Discovery.
I seen ball lightning when I was younger along with my Mother, Father and adult sister. I always thought it was just rare not semi mythical. It descended relatively slowly and struck the ground in the fields in front of my sisters house and just disappeared.
my friend Andy Mills the esteemed senior Concorde pilot had ball lightning come through his windscreen at Mach 2 drop to the floor between him and the co-pilot roll backwards towards the door go through the door and roll down back down the gangway between all the passengers.
“What’s the Amber room ?” If you don’t know this , you don’t belong on a history podcast w/ Dan Snow .
I grew up in Wroclaw, stories of missing Nazi gold were still very much alive even in the 90s. These were particularly rampant around Owl Mountains, where Nazi underground complex Riese (Giant) is located, which I believe Dan is talking about. Some sections are open for public but I also explored some parts that would be potentially deadly unless you were well equipped and had your wits about you at all time, so you don't suddenly step into 45 feet hole in pitch darkness.
For me missing treasure I hope one day will resurface is definitely Amber Room (or Amber Chamber as you would call it in Poland). I sometimes wonder if it's on secret display somewhere. Even from drawings it looked incredible. But I take into possibility that it was just cut into pieces and sold off as just amber.
In Canada, we don't have a check box for 'Is he Lucky,' but we do have one for speaking French, which is lucky, because you can't become a senior officer if you don't.
'Mummy Brown' was well used by artists. Basically blended mummies..
my great gg grandfather jumped out the windows of hazlitt's in 1817..with a gold pocket watch he stole suposedly..transported the sydney the following year..became the first french baker in australia he fought with napoleon at waterloo..Hazlitts was then in the french quarter he eventually had a hand in bringing down governor darling back to england
I've heard of the cocaine mummy dinner parties. The only problem with that is that the cocaine was WITHIN the tissue. Meaning that the mummies in life, had to have ingested it when alive. The cocaine wasn't up top. But inside the flesh of these pharonic people. 🤔😋
Yes that’s correct.
Government of Poland NEVER stated that gold train was found.
Could Ball Lightning be water struck by lightning and be turned into plasma?
If you could find only one lost treasure it would have to be the Ark of the Covenant.
On dinner parties - Join the Autopsy Club and enjoy Open Mike Night!
Oh! Eewww! Groan!
THE AMBER ROOM!!! thats the one for me!!!!! If want to find that!!!
Actually..... tomb of alexander the great, the library of alexendria, cleopatras tomb potentially, things we know we should be able to find... cos we would all love to find eldorado!! Or atlantis!!
Venturi effect?
King John is one of my ancestors :)
If I could find one treasure it would be that set of keys to my front door that disappeared like 15 years ago. Actually, I would really like to know what happened to it because HOW it was lost is a bit of a mystery. Some sources claim it was my dear mother who lost it while other sources get rather upset and say I *censored* lost it all on my own.
Nonsensical brain candy, thoroughly enjoyed it.
How can the curse of King Tut be told aboard the Titanic in 1912 when Howard Carter didn't discover the tomb until 1922?
I would have thought that the answer to shower curtains was pretty obvious. But there, I am only a 78 year old history graduate. What would I know.? Love the programme though.
Does anyone know what's the book Dan talked about it when he mentioned the shower curtain mistery?
I'm from Wroclaw, Poland. Greetings. Although "golden train" story was fake, I believe there are places in Lower Silesia, especially in the mountain part of it, where there are WW2 Nazi loots are hidden. It's kind of common knowledge here. There are many impressive underground constructtions, like "underground city" Osówka, and other parts of "Riese" complex. Somebody estimated the amount of concrete used to build that comlex, and it shows, that there was a lot more concrete used by Nazis than the amount used for the objects we know about. Therefore there are probably underground tunnels or even "cities" within mountains, which are still hidden. There are many stories about "guards" who were SS-mans appointed to guard that area. They pretended civil Poles, but after their death in their houses SS-uniforms were discovered in secret closets. There are beautiful houses or palaces which were burned after the war and puropsefully neglected in order not to draw attention to certain places or to diminish the human traffic around certain areas. In my oppinion there are real Third Reich loots hidden here, and there's a lot of it.
All the 🌎 ❤ gold.
Ffs i watched that doc i cant beleve i was strung along.
Which "Gold train"?
The Occult Battle of Britain by Paul Weston might be a good source of world war weirdness.
Oh c'mon!! What about Shakespeare's lost plays!!!
An enjoyable discourse. I have experienced what I think must have been Ball Lightning and also recall my Mother telling me of her experience not dissimilar to that recounted by @MargaretUK below.
Don't do it! This is ancient aliens level history!
Lovvit !
You forgot Glasgow Ceptics 53 league titles?