What the FUCK, America Unearthed… the secret to finding some lost treasure of Gen GA Custer’s payroll is sealed in a manila envelope in some guys tomb?! You know the problems you can get in robbing graves?
Is it my imagination or is this prgram so full of shit it needs to be run through a sewage treatment plant before watching?
If this is the same show I’m thinking of, we stopped watching it because everything – everything – traced back to the Knights Templar. Stone dwelling in New England? Knights Templar! Cross found in the Southwestern desert? Knights Templar! The Exxon logo? The red double-X is the the Knights Templar symbol, and the blue blue stripe represents the ocean they had to cross!
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This seems to be some new guy - a forensic geologist … I think last week or week previous to that he was chasing down the Lost Dutchman Mine, and then there was Montezuma’s Gold. Every episode he is somehow given some damned clue to a treasure that he goes chasing off after.
And another show some pair of brothers from Massachusets [I think] is chasing after skeletons of giants in the US.
And I woke up to some show that was somehow linking the ‘ruin’ at Gungywamp here in my own stomping grounds to some damned druids because it had a sight hole that when the sun was in a particular area shone light onto something else … as if the local tribes who were agrarian didn’t have an interest in figuring out the best planting dates?!:smack:
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The guy is an idiot. My favorite was when he rented a helicopter and took off but then “discovered” he couldn’t fly below the rim of the Grand Canyon where he wanted to.
Actually I’m sure he knew all the time…just made better tv to do it his way.
Yes, just another in a long list of terrible, terrible “science and history” shows on cable TV. The genre reached it’s pinnacle with Mermaids, The Body Found.
Some show looking for a race of giants has visited my town to look at a local historical site. The local historians who know every detail of this burial ground had never heard of the so called evidence of giant skeletons found, but as usual, lack of evidence is evidence of a conspiracy. It’s truly a wonderful thing that we have cable channels so dedicated to science instead of the mindless entertainment found elsewhere.
I have to admit, I treat these shows more like travelogs, I like looking at interesting places to visit. I have actually been to Gungywamp [back when we first moved up here in 1990 so it has been quite a while.]
My favorite was the one about the Lost Colony at Roanoke and the host was interviewing a local historian and going on and on and on with his ridiculous theory about the Dare Stones, and the local historian simply said what every person on the planet knows to be true: The Dare Stones are fakes.
The host pissed and moaned about what a jerk the local historian was and continued on his insane theory.
Another favorite was on the Lincoln assassination. The hosts had decided that Booth was at the head of a secret Confederate conspiracy to hide gold so that the south would rise again, as part of the Knights Templar, which included Stanton, Booth, Jesse James(!), and some other interesting people.
The whole show was a series of interviews with local idiots who lived in their mothers’ basements and when they would mention a name, boom, it would go into the “Circle of Fire” or some such nonsense.
These shows would be great if they focused on actual history.
There they are again! :eek: