American Pyramids: The Mystery of the Giant Mound Builders and America's Lost Civilization
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2023
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Scattered across North America are enormous, mysterious earthworks that have been linked to everything from vanished Native American tribes to extraterrestrial visits, the fabled continent of Atlantis, and even a mysterious race of towering giants.
The legacy of ancient civilizations often lies in the structures they leave behind, and this is especially true of the mound-building societies whose obsessive construction of these cryptic mounds has left historians and archeologists baffled for ages.
Far from mere piles of earth, many of these mounds showcase advanced geometric designs, precise celestial alignments, and unparalleled mathematical precision. Such sophistication has led some to suggest that these ancient mound-builders may have held knowledge in specific areas that even surpasses our own.
Yet, these architectural wonders pose more questions than they answer. What purpose did they serve? And why did the masterful builders behind them seemingly vanish without a trace?
This is the story of North America's ancient mound-builders and the centuries-long quest to piece together the puzzle of their creations...
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Would love to see more Ancient North American history...
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It’s not a mystery. The mound builders are the ancestors of all civilizations of the world. It was called Hue hue Tlapalan. It’s in the historical record.
This might sound stupid but what if the native Americans did actually have pack animals back then. We know the Eskimo used dogs way back then and that other native American tribes had different breeds of dogs for different things back in the day before the Europeans showed up.we also known that there were rain dear herding cultures connected by land bridges back in the day and that people keep buffalo and dear as pets these days, so what it's not much of a stretch to say that that was a ancient part of American technology and knowledge that may have been lost .
There's those clay figures of people riding dinosors the found in the Americas, and from my own country and the Maori culture.u know they came to NZ from Hawaii, now the Hawaiians had a flywheel drill technology but it seems to have been lost when the Cano's from Hawaii landed in NZ and the Maori culture developed. They seemed to have adopted the technology of the moreore that were already in NZ and originated from the islands of Tonga and Samoa. And even with the Romans and Roman concrete we know knowledge can be lost ........ anyway just an idea I had, maybe they had trained buffalo or dogs for hauling heavy stuff
I live 15 miles from Kincaid mounds. My grandfather bought land with his gi bill after coming home from fighting in Guadalcanal and New Guinea. In the fifties he had accumulated a lot of land. His land in southern illinois contained undiscovered mounds that forest had grown around. The department of the interior showed up and he was made to sell that tract to them. He wasn’t concerned over it as he had acquired so much by constantly buying land with his profits and he had been through hell in the Pacific and was the most positive person I’ve ever met. I never got to talk to him about those mounds but my mom said many people believed those specific sets of mounds contained something. I’ll say this in Cairo il there is an energy you don’t feel anywhere else. I’ve felt a vortex in Oregon there’s places near Cairo where it felt the same and has visual distortions. I need to get ahold of a good drone and go out there and checkout those mounds and surrounding area.
Be careful bc if it’s federal land u can get charged for flying stuff over there I had a homie do something similar and he got charged for it
Cairo, IL is diffinitely a strange place.
Not to mention the fact there were mounds all over what is now St.Louis Missouri. The Cahokians/ Mississippi Culture had so much potential knowledge of and artifacts just completely erased when St.Louis expanded into what it is now.
A ghetto.... Haha
It's a shame they were destroyed to make room for the city of St Louis only one small one still remains.
I've been to Cahokia Mounds and pictures don't do it justice. Its amazing just how large monks mound truly is and how and why it was built.
It looks like they've been rebuilt. The lines are too clean for dirt mounds exposed for thousands of years.
I like how they rebuilt part of the wall that surrounded monks mound.
@@daveadalian4116 No way they were rebuilt. Christianity is older than the civilization that built monks mound in the first place.
Did you see the massive tools in the museum?
I've been there too it was an amazing experience.... I had a deer stand right in front of me and stare in to my eyes for 2 straight minutes . It was wild
I’ve visited the Serpent Mound in Ohio on the Summer Solstice. I watched the sun set, seemingly in the mouth of the serpent. Modern studies have found that the solstice sun is a few degrees off of setting into the mouth, but, I experienced it, and it seemed very intentional. Besides, when the mound was built, it might’ve been more precise. The biggest take away from the whole experience was, you can feel an electricity in the air, and almost feel a low frequency hum at your feet. There is a palpable sense of something paranormal at this time, at this place. It’s unforgettable.
Procession of the Equinox has the Earth shifting 1° every 72 years .
i lived in west union, oh in adams county and think that entire area should be an archeological dig. we would find everything from cephalopod fossils in the blue clay, to arrow heads and pipe bowls in the fields and woods. there are hills and small mountains and back yards that hold a wealth of artifacts and knowledge. that said, the vibration of the area is a palpable sense of meth and corruption. that's why i split.
@@wraithstrongoparksadly the last part of your comment is very true. Sad that such a beautiful place is so backward and f up.
You didn’t mention the Etowah Indian Mounds in Cartersville, Georgia. These mounds are just as impressive and enigmatic.
At 12 minutes 25 seconds he mentions discovery of a giant skeleton at one of the Georgia mounds. My mother was from the area and her father remembered the articles in the local paper when this was found, after the flooding of the Etowah River. So, he did actually include the Etowah mounds, but he didn't name them. In spite of "archeologists" theories that they were built by the Cherokee, the oral history of the Cherokee nation says that the mounds were there when they moved into the area, and they just used them for a village site.
Yeah, they were the very first images of the video, and got no recognition.
I grew up not too far from the Etowah Mounds are they really are something to behold. Beautiful land too. It’s definitely worth the visit if you’re ever in the area.
Definitely giants. These mounds are tee boxes for giant golf courses. Lakes were nothing but water hazards. From one side of Ohio to the other side was a long par 5.
Obviously.
This is my new favorite theory
I really hope more of the ancient Americans get written into history. This is a fantastic job thank you!
Which ancient Americans are you referring to? Indians who have a well written history or all the way back to clovis first?
Anyone else feel like the narrator has an all time great voice for narration? David Attenborough, Morgan Freeman etc. not as famous obviously but I get the same exciting, captivated feeling when I listen to one of these vids
AI will destroy that job too
I have no specific idea on who the mound builders were. I suspect it was the same people buried in large mounds all over the same regions. One thing I am sure of, the only groups saying they didn't build them are the ones "mainstream archaeologists" says did, the native tribes here when the white explorers came. Their detailed oral history denies they built these earthworks. Seems to me we should take their word for it.
So the natives say it was a different civilisation prior to them? Maybe it was Minoans ?
I do. I recently found it in the historical record. America was once known as “hue hue Tlapalan” and was known by the Toltecs as their ancestors. America was the start of all civilization.
@@RightGate3no it was the atalans (tlapalans) of Hue Hue Tlapalan.
Search Hue hue Tlapalan!
The Americas had been populated for more than 10,000 years when these structures were built, possibly longer, making it odd to call these people "primitive." A city of 30,000 people at that time would have been comparable to London; there's no way the people living there were hunting and gathering their livings. When Europeans finally arrived, they found well developed domesticated crops, squashes, tomatoes, tubers and corn. Those are developments that take generations to achieve. This is clearly a sophisticated culture with an understanding of geometry on par with the Greeks or Egyptians, and there's no reason not to suppose they came up with the scheme entirely on their own.
Any reading on this you can recommend?
No. It doesn’t count coz they weren’t white. (Sarcasm) That seems to almost be the argument tho
@godboygordon Idk where op got his info but I have watched several YT vids by TheWhyFiles that talk about this sophisticated city that is mentioned here. He goes into great detail about how it was much bigger, more advanced and much more populated than London was at that time. Its very interesting
White people call them primitive. It's a Eurocentric thing. It's hard for some people to accept that whites didn't get here first and indigenous people were thriving before they showed up.
We aren’t allowed to dig them up and so what they really are. Because it’s suppose to be erased from history. But we ain’t stupid
And obviously predates the timeliness of 20k-40k 🤫
Nobody ever seems to mention the mounds in AL. I haven't been since I was a kid which was a long time ago but at the time I was amazed at it. Need to go see it again before checking out
Mobile all my life I'd never heard this before thanks 🖖
You have a very unique voice and presentation, please dont change or sell out to adverse commercialism
Thank you for covering the Watson Brake! It is almost due south of Poverty Point. There are mounds all over the delta area - with a town actually named "Mound" in Louisiana. Mound is just west of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
I live near Cahokia Mounds in southwestern Illinois. I’ve been to Monk’s Mound. The mound builders are an interesting topic!
Who were they? Everyone guessing? Ever heard of “hue hue Tlapalan”?
I live about 40 minutes from Cahokia it’s an amazing place
Been to the mound in downtown Fort Walton Beach,Florida.This thing is very impressive.
Castle Houska in the Czech Republic would make a great video, imho. It has a very troubling history.
Is that the place that allegedly has an entrance to Hell?
@@grinningtiki220
Yes
That people still believe the wheel 🛞 has not been a part from the beginning are laughable 😅
Went looking for Etowah Mounds when I was younger, before GPS. I'd've never found them, except for a group of High Schoolers having a car wash told me where they were. They also told me I was saying it wrong, lolz.
I live about 4 hours drive from Chilicothe Ohio where there's a national historical site for ancient mounds there (sadly about 2/3rds of what was originally there has been destroyed by modern society). I'll definitely consider stopping by if I happen to be going that direction.
Love this Chanel. Top 5 for me. All the others are nowhere as new. Keep it up! You always have a new piece of info and idea. Thanks for everything friend
Ocmulgee Mounds in Macon, GA are also pretty cool. There is a temple house there.
I am saddned that with all the technology we boast we are still not able to give better answers to these age old mysteries! The bigger question to be asked here is that who did these people make these structures which can only be seen from above, like the lines in Nazca, these serpent mounds and the thousands of complex and geometric geoglyphs found all over Syria and the deserts of Arabia. Put aside how our ancestors were able to make such precise formations, who were they doing it for when these can only be understood from high above the ground? If flying beings, then who were they and where did they go?
I will give you the answer. “Hue Hue Tlapalan”
People act as though it’s a mystery, but it’s because the knowledge has been buried, just not as deep as this civilization is.
The "aliens" darkness .. Reptilians underground it was showing who lived underground and they also had "iron chariots" as the book of judges calls it
There are mounds like this on land acquired by government on base fort Bragg NC
Blinded by ignorance and arrogance, people throughout the ages have always underestimate the previous generations and generations of long ago.
We are much smatere than previous generations.
New Madrid County Central High School is built right next to a mound and on the site a large Native American village.
Not gonna talk about Chaco Canyon… Fajada Butte… Pueblo Bonito? The entire Chaco complex puts everything else to shame when it comes to solar and lunar tracking... No other site on the planet is as complicated as Chaco and its remote outlying structures and its North Road. Chaco is where it’s at. Research it.
I have spent time at Cahokia Mounds. It feels as sacred as Egypt, Puma Puku, or Israel.
The United States used to have a lot of actual pyramids and societal structures similar to what you find in Central America. Settlers tore down and destroyed all of the remnants of ancient civilizations in the name of clearing space for their cities and houses. Many of our cities sit on old settlements by the native people. If you’ve ever wondered why the Aztecs or Mayans seemed to be so advanced but the tribes of the US were not, it is because they actually were. We removed most of the evidence which showed their prowess.
....lol yes you can also just make shit up too
If most of the evidence was removed, then how do you know they were that advanced 🤔
Great job on this video.
Love this
Late to the party here. But thank you for bringing up these ancient earthworks. Newark Earth Works just became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and I live 30 minutes from there. I am from the Mid Ohio Valley too and grew up near the Serpent Mounds. Am from West Virginia so of course Moundsville. I the Columbus Ohio area, Hilliard, Dublin, Reynoldsburg, the whole really of Southeast Ohio is covered in mounds. They are are "private" property and an entire metro park, called Prairie Oaks Metro Park and The Bird Preserve, have mounds. The US and really north and south America have a rich history that is older than we know. Well, those of us who listen to the stories know. I recommend coming for a visit, especially to the areas I named. Very spiritual. The land, if you listen, tells you its story.
Thank you for bringing this up.
There was a pyramid in Kossuth Iowa, discovered by a farmer drilling for a well. It was all over the papers and mummies were found, that were large with red hair. There are similar stories in Wisconsin.
When was it all over the papers?
@@Halbared I'll see if I can figure out a date, give me a bit
The temple of the 7 Planets at Sogmartar is a video I am waiting for from anyone!!
Awesome video😊😊
There is a larger Serpent mound in Pike Co. MO
fascinating!
Great video, love this topic
Ever heard of “hue hue Tlapalan”?
I’m confused. At 5:17, you’re showing the Historical Marker sign which clearly says the serpent mound was constructed around 1000 AD. At the same time, you’re saying it was built around 300 BC🤔
Yeah and saying only sticks, no animals, carts or tools is bollox too
I have a burial mound 3 miles away from me (Im in the UK and of anglo saxon descent) called hetty peglars tump (southwest Gloucester) its similar albit a bit smaller and possibly older too
That’s because he is using mainstream ideology of today’s age.
If you wanna know the truth search “hue hue Tlapalan”
Every one of these sites I've seen have had two phases of building with the second phase being About a thousand years apart and the second phase being of significant lower quality.
Excellent like all your content
I live in Newark Ohio where the circle mound is. Amazing sight to be honest. I drive by it everyday and sometimes forget how cool it really is.
On the contrary, the myth of the "civilized savage" or "Noble Savage" has been largely debunked.
Lost City Of Zed/ Ancient City’s/Pyramids in the Amazon, Eye of the Sahara/Lost city Of Atlantis
I wish you would have touched on spiro mounds and other mounds in Oklahoma
A little disappointed there wasn’t a mention of moundville. The Ohio Hopewell are interesting because they made greater use of the area that is now West Virginia, then any subsequent Indian cultures. Later cultures believed the West Virginia area was haunted because the Hopewell used it as a burial ground.
How could one mention such great extensive works in a 15 mins video. The secrets to all the mystery lies in the search term “hue hue tlapalan”
I live near the Angel Mounds. There are many more areas here that have never been excavated or catalogued. This is largely due to them now being on privately-owned land, and many landowners have sought for them to remain a secret for this reason.
Furthermore, they contain human remains.
im still waiting for archeologist and historians to admit they have no clue how long we have been here, and they only make best guesses. it has changed every bloody year since the 80s.
Wow they piled the rocks the best way to pile rocks! How did they know must have been ancient technology!
Pennsylvania's founder, William Penn, wrote in his biography that the Lenape tribe natives origionally came from our Pacific NorthWest. Over a long period of time they migrated Eastwoad. As they crossed the Mississippi River, they "put out the campfires," wiped out the Mississippian Mound Builders civilization. I called up the Lenape nation and asked about this. The Lenape representative I talked to verified this fact.
Illinois one was destroyed by Madrid fault, it will happen soon. Unlike the coast, that fault is on the craton. It will be felt from Mpls to NY and Mississippi River will change from it.
Starting to think the star to structure alignments are a form of shared organization. 1 culture does and it leads to well portioned space so it passes around as the most ideal setup. Especially for economy if traders know the same building types are in the same place from site to site.
These were made by the Washitaw De Dugdahmoundyah People.
On the Campus of LSU, in Louisiana there's a plaque in Poverty Point, where the United Nations says "The Washitaw De Dugdahmoundyah People are the oldest living indigenous peoples on the Earth.
In the book "The Ancient Ones," The Queen Mother of the Washitaw De Dugdahmoundyah People says, we have been in the Americas for over 100,000 years!
I still have a hard time with the idea that every other culture across the world independently invented the wheel and then used beasts of burden to transport heavy weights around. They had plenty of raw materials and skills, but somehow didn’t feel that an easier way was necessary.
The native Americans never had a wheel
Nor did the Sub-Saharan Africans until its introduction by other traveling peoples of other civilizations.
Bro think about it humans Brian have been about the same size for about 100,000 years and we definitely didn’t get smarter we just had more technology that people way before us for here and I don’t think that people talk about the amount of trading that would go on during the world man all culture are melting pots of cultures that came before them
@@jongriggs6622the native Americans are not responsible for the mound.
@@jongriggs6622there are Inca toy artifacts with wheels. What they didn't have were large enough beasts to pull them.
I believe as many do ... That the mound builders were a distinct separate race from the local natives. They USED and appreciated the mounds .. but discovered them, not built them
The paid promotion should’ve been at the end of the video
Wow. I caught this a few seconds after your upload. Nice. Love your channels, D5!
If you do your due diligence there are mounds at every confluence through out the eastern united states.
Anyone ask the Native American tribes? They have pretty good verbal history past down from generations to generations.
Very interesting cuz know some mystery places
I have been to the mounds ❤❤
Back then we had nothing but dirt and time
We? Do you have an ancient native American in your pocket?
@@Flint-Dibble-the-Don i mean me personally. See even in those days you had to be busy doing something or you'd be ostracized. I was pretty aimless but i didn't want to be seen as lazy so I started scraping dirt into a pile. It was really just for the appearance of having a purpose. I didn't expect it to take off like it did and I certainly wasn't going to tell anyone after they all pitched in and the thing was like eighty feet high.
Whole thing turned into a big trend, one group would try to out mound the other, bigger, wider, different shapes and alignments. Like a tik tok fad but because there was no Internet it took decades to fall out of popularity instead of days like they do now.
Can you please do a video on "Rock Eagle"? The "buzzard" made out of a massive pile of quartz crystals?
Of course they were native american tribes that built them. They had universities from coast to coast specializing in mathematics and geometry with a major in mound building!
Effective immediately....
The Etowah mounds in Georgia are pretty cool
One aspect of this story that cannot be understated is the horrific destruction of the majority of these mounds by Americans, even in contemporary times. For instance, in Oxford, Alabama, a tax-payer funded retail complex was built atop a 1,500 year old archaeological site that obliterated a mound and then the soil was used as filler to build a Sam’s Club. We like to pretend that we’re so civilized here in America, but in reality we can’t even preserve our own history
That's not my history. My history is in Europe.
@@Theggman83 Okay…
@@Theggman83then go back there and fight more endless wars that dont lead anywhere. euros are good at that.
@@davedavidson8208 lol the native Americans fought wars over territory and resources too, kid. The lie of the 'noble savage' has long been debunked.
Another great video i gotta say. One of my favorite youtube channels and favorite of dark 5s sub channels. I'm really wondering the mystery of the snake mound and mound builders.
No questions who built those mounds in the South and we know the exact reason behind their disappearance. There is history laid out at some of these mounds and towns in Georgia.
Why? Why did they disappear?
soooo many mounds have been destroyed
So still bigger than any pre 1629 sub sahar african structures lol
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Ladders should no be built over these sacred places..
Not Hunter gathering I think
I think he got ate by a mountain lion. The pants inside out, the phone chord looks chewed up, everything is scattered around.... RIP
The earth has been populated by man for over 100 million years, for he said "there is nothing new under the sun"!!!
The chronology is all wrong. The Koster site alone has been dated back to 6,500 bc using geological data.
These works are not the works of native Americans found here at the time they were “discovered” by Europeans.
The mound builders, such a shame of a name, were known as tlapalans, and they were nahuas, the ancestors of the Toltecs, and all great civilizations of maya and Aztec.
Hue hue tlapalan is the land of North America, and predates all civilizations around the world.
As we know the Toltecs/nahuas/mound builders settled Egypt.
Just as we know the mayans settled Angkor in Cambodia.
If you’d like, we could discuss further, as this is one of my areas of deep interest.
Visited the Serpent Mound, not far from my house in PA. Nice but not as impressive as the aerial views of course.
Well done ! Educational !
Weren’t a lot of the mounds destroyed?
Unfortunately to make room for farms and cities.
Perhaps these mounds were prepared to sled down for fun. Jk great upload
Northeastern Ohio has the Largest Oldest Mounds in the World. Twice documented Twice the Size of Monks mound Cahokia .
cover up
Wayne May has another theory…
All of these scientific questions ASSUME a lot about the builders and the time frame. Carbon-14 is NOT exact dating. And the rough time frames are very rough. They assume the mounds were build by simple hunter-gatherers for religious means...but they really have NO idea.
@ 9:50 you describe how the Hopewell built the mounds but just previous you say that very little is known about the Hopewell culture. Well, which is it? DO we know how they were built from them or do we not know., Can't have it both.
? it's possible to know who built something without knowing their culture.
just as we know who built gobekli tepe, but we dont know their culture. so we can't say why they did something, just that they did it.
No Mysteries !
Its where the covid-19 vaccines are made. I read it on the internet.
Wait, the native Americans built them, but disappeared, but then were here when the Europeans arrived? 12:35
Like he said first off the mound from the hunter-gatherers so they had structure and they had political and other stuff but they're simple hunter-gatherers okay
SCP 1000 built this stuff!
Yeah there's been lots of different farming going on down here hasn't there? We have been being farmed also! And through decades of intense research and psychic ability and a Little help from inside I have found out that it's actually human-looking creatures quite similar to us that are really running the show up there, it's written on Stone that they were originally 60 to 65 feet tall a long long time ago but not for very long, also there's written Roman record of a find that happened right after an earthquake in 37 or 67 BC something like that where two 35 to 37-foot human-looking skeletons were found in a fissure that opened up in the ground and that's written down on actual record! Most of the ones I've heard of that we're running around in North America were around the 9 to 11 ft range with some being in the 13 to 14 ft area and even some 17 to 18 ft, now some of these were reported to be cyclops with one eye socket in the middle of their forehead! And that's according to the Smithsonian! This stuff is serious!... It's really just a matter of chromosomal arrangement and switching around a few aliels here and there, I'm sure the first ones had to be artificially gestated.
There has been multiple migrations to the America's could have been much older people or South americans
Tbf it still sounds like Vikings with iron is a more viable explanation than people with sharpened sticks and no wheel. "Modern day rational thinking" isn't as rational as we'd like to think. We could look back on these times from the future and speculate on why we were bias in favour of non Europeans. They might even call you names and look down on you
no, it doesnt sound like vikings at all. and anyone who actually believes it was done with sharpened sticks is as equally dumb. why wasn't it vikings? well you said yourself there's no evidence they ever used a wheel, which Scandinavian cultures did have... you think they crossed the ocean and forgot how to make a wheel all of the sudden and abandoned all Scandinavian construction know how? and that's why theres no evidence of their use in construction? no.. it's because vikings didn't build any of it to begin with.
with cahokia, we are talking about a society who was known to have access to copper, they didnt even need to mine it. huge chunks hundreds to thousands of pounds just sit along shore lines of the great lakes from time to time. they would have very obviously known this and taken advantage of it to pair with stone and bone tools, on top of man power we know they had since their cities were massive population wise for their time. a city of 30k people could easily support a workforce that could build any of these mounds with what tools they had at their disposal within the time frames given.
A vid on the North American Pyramids would be interesting
Thank you for giving us Indigenous peoples a shout out. Ahó.
My hypothesis, on the disappearance of these cultures, is not only a combination of climate, disease, or social upheaval, but also the lack of a writing system. Something to leave archival evidence behind, while oral traditions can change and misconstrue because perception, of the era, can change.
heh...mounds
Miss the intro
Getting that ad revenue Sir!
The Spanish destroyed alot of ruins 200 years before the white man came, the oldest city St.augustine was built of top the ruins of an advanced ancient civilisation