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you know I’m not really a conspiratorial type of person when I’m looking into a mystery I tend to look for an answer
0:06 that satisfies common sense you know just makes sense to me and it requires you know the fewest assumptions kinds of
0:12 aams Razor type of thing right and usually that leads me in a good direction man I mean usually I feel like
0:18 I I can at least maybe I’m maybe I’m I’m looking somewhere anyway and it makes kind of sense
0:24 but sometimes sometimes as the kids would say it just all seems kind of sus
0:30 and a great example of that is the paraka skulls from Peru when I dug into
0:35 that looking to find an answer what I found read like a mashup of freaking Sherlock Holmes and the X Files it’s
0:41 it’s insane I could go off about it for five minutes trying to make the perfect intro but let’s just talk about the
0:47 things because the history of this is insanity hi my name is Dan and welcome to the
0:53 dunking go where the day flows only time
1:01 first discovered by Europeans in the 1800s the paracas necropolis is located
1:06 in Peru in the 1920s the war kin necropolis was discovered and in it was
1:11 found hundreds of funeral bundles layered bags of grave Goods one inside the other and in the center bag the body
1:18 of the deceased and the grave Goods proper there were other grave bundles like this in the vicinity but the ones
1:24 from war K became famous because of the shape of the skulls the largest has a cranial capacity of 1655 cubic cm and is
1:33 28 cm long for comparison the average male cranial capacity is
1:38 1380 cubic cm over 10% smaller and 17 1.5 cm long the size and shape isn’t the
1:46 only odd thing about these skulls they often lack suture marks where other skulls have them in particular the
1:52 sagittal suture comes up missing from the more extreme specimens many of these skulls had evidence of cranial
1:58 truncation that means they had holes drilled in their damned head while they were still alive and and a lot of these
2:04 skulls have red hair on them and they come in all different kinds of shapes and sizes in other words they’re
2:10 speculated on pretty heavily because of a number of different reasons and the
2:15 speculation it runs a [ __ ] Gambit man I mean we’re talking about is it Ancient Aliens is it freaking extinct species of
2:23 homed is it a genetic deformity from inbreeding or some such stuff where did this come from is it just just basically
2:29 people stretching out skulls but they got really really really really good at it down here there’s all kinds of
2:35 speculations so when I dug into it I was hoping to
2:40 find some semblance of an answer instead what I found
2:46 was let’s just talk about that in 1927 the first of the graves from the paracas
2:51 necropolis was discovered by archaeologists immediately afterwards Julio the archaeologist who had ordered
2:57 the original Expedition went to work on the site and it encompassed not only his professional life but archaeology in
3:03 Peru itself from that moment on one of the things that happened immediately is these odd little discrepancies that seem
3:10 to imply Foul Play of some sort the first time he mentions the total number of grave bundles for example T says
3:18 there was 429 but when he first spoke of the find in public he spoke of 451 bundles and in
3:25 1933 when he wrote about the government not properly financing the preservation of the mummies he spoke again of 451
3:32 bundles another archaeologist agreed in a mutually authored papers they speak again of 451 bundles the excuse or
3:40 reason or whatever you want to call it that’s given for this is that the bodies found in nearby caves were given numbers
3:46 266 through 287 which is odd why would they be included in some counts including the
3:52 original but omitted from others and why would a site that’s off to the side of the main site get numbers assigned that
3:59 fall right in the middle of the main site in addition to this there’s contradictory reports of the size of the
4:06 bundles found and that’s not as important as like missing bundles but it kind of is because all of these things
4:12 allow for a smoke screen if the reports change from time to time that is when
4:18 artifacts can go missing right now the reason the expedition was sent to look into the region to begin with was the
4:25 site had been being looted for quite a while the unique things that had been found at the site Drew attention from
4:31 archaeologists when they showed up on the market and they asked a looter to help them find the site and by the time
4:36 they begin to transport the 451 excuse me 429 ferary bundles from
4:44 the place that they found them to the museum in Lima well you know on the way
4:49 they had to open up a few because they were like there were some problems they were their deteriorating so they just
4:54 kind of you know we got to pop these boy Bad Boys open along the way of course there’s not any good records of what
5:00 they opened up when they did that there was just we open some up along the way boys nothing to see here obviously many
5:07 of the Mummy bundles were already missing and just as obviously the things that looked the most promising or that
5:13 were easiest to take would be long gone by the time the first scientists were on the scene now regardless the finds were
5:19 presented to the museum in 1929 and T was able to use this to secure funding for the expansion of the museum in order
5:25 to properly display the finds at the same time the new exhibit was scheduled to open a neverbe opened grain bundle
5:32 was scheduled to also be opened when the second South American Congress of Tourism was expecting the exhibit now
5:39 this was a big moment for T he could secure more funding if this went well or he could lose a lot of
5:45 funding and the bundle contained beans not a body not a body when all the
5:52 dignitaries were there to watch it beans came out of a funerary bundle and from what I can find during my research this
5:58 is the only one of those bundles has ever coughed up nobody just beings so I
6:04 could be wrong about that if I am somebody please let me know down below I I I try to read everything I can but I
6:09 can’t read everything that there is so I do appreciate assistance and um but I do
6:15 think that I got this one right I don’t I don’t see any other ones that have coughed up beans ever and that’s a little bit on the crazy side now isn’t
6:21 it especially when the funding was such a big deal at this point it’s just a little bit suspect it’s like we’re
6:29 trying to get funding here’s some big dignitaries these items were just taken off of the black market and oh by the
6:36 way uh these items aren’t as good as you thought some of these are beans man it’s a grab bag it’s not really ferary
6:42 bundles and it could be beans and finances continued to play a major role in the future of the remains in 1930 in
6:49 the wake of the depression as well as internal political issues the Peruvian government was overthrown in a coup and
6:56 the new government removed T from his position as director of the the Museum of Peruvian archaeology at this time
7:02 several of the Grave bundles were in Spain and Germany for exhibits with a few of the artifacts and remains only
7:08 being repatriated in recent years and some things seemingly still missing today although time and the consistent
7:15 errors in the records make it difficult to discern this for sure what we do know
7:20 is the funding basically vanished to care for these remains and for the next couple of years they were not adequately
7:26 protected displayed or studied the scientists involved their safekeeping spent that time battling red tape and
7:32 looking for an appropriate place to store the remains and a few bucks to do it with the remains were moved at least
7:37 twice during the years of 1929 to 1931 and funding was slashed when the new
7:42 government had stepped in and was further cut by a third in 1932 this created a sense of desperation
7:49 in the scientists involved despite no longer being in charge of the museum T was still a key researcher of the
7:56 remains and in 1936 he took a trip well more of a tour of museums across the
8:01 Americas with a focus on the United States his expressed purpose was to quote visit museums and to secure
8:08 technical backing and cooperation and he managed to do this in 1936 in New York
8:13 City the andian research center was opened but that’s not what got him the funding he needed that came from Nelson
8:20 Rockefeller in 1937 Rockefeller took a trip around South America and stopped in
8:25 Peru now the mummies weren’t being properly protected in part because the Spanish descendants that ran Peru didn’t
8:32 care about the native remains and that blew rockefeller’s mind so he donated $3,000 to the cause of preserving the
8:39 war kayen mummy bundles now this was a fraction of the funding that t had requested but Rockefeller seems to have
8:45 planned this out because next it was like Hey you know take this money and
8:51 then if you accept that and then you were like hey man we will be willing to give you know like four or five of these
8:57 bundles to the Metropolitan Museum of New York that Rockefeller you happened to be on the board of he’s like oh yeah
9:04 well you know we could I bet I could get the board to donate you enough money to take care of everything if you sent me
9:10 those mummies my way and next thing you know T is sending four mummies up there
9:16 now he claims the criteria was well these were the ones that were in most in need of preservation these these were
9:21 the ones that were falling apart you know so many of these are falling apart we had to save those so those are the ones we sent to Rockefeller but let’s be
9:28 clear man I Nelson Rockefeller was not known for just hanging out good deals okay and in
9:35 a situation like this where he’s clearly negotiating he’s not just like here’s the money you need see you later $3,000
9:40 $50,000 to that man was not much of nothing in those days
9:47 um I don’t think the criteria was so much which bundles needed restored as much as which ones were the freaking
9:54 coolest and would be nice to know for sure but the records are pretty crap so
10:01 too took that three grand and immediately used it to start like preserving and cleaning and uh like
10:08 reconstructing The Remains and the artifacts and stuff that they had from these funerary
10:13 bundles and they record a handful of the actual details
10:19 all of them being textiles it was 346 I believe it is textiles that they managed
10:24 to fix 346 textiles were preserved cleaned and rep repaired with that money
10:31 so he just got through saying we’ve got the four ferary bundles that we’re going to send to the Metropolitan Museum of
10:37 New York are falling apart oh man these are in desperate need of repair we need the Americans to throw some money at it
10:44 the Americans give him three grand does he have any funerary bundles that need fixed no he’s got a whole big pile of
10:50 cloth something about this doesn’t add up it seems to me these funerary bundles
10:56 keep getting reported as being in worse condition than they actually are otherwise why wouldn’t he spend any
11:03 of that money on funerary bundles and if he did why was not not reported and instead we hear about
11:10 textiles doesn’t make sense the fact that Rockefeller had finan these efforts caused the then president of Peru
11:17 General Ben aidz to take note of the paracas collection he is said to have
11:22 stated what is good enough for Rockefeller is good enough for Peru and offered T financing and labor for a new
11:29 Museum and according to the stories the president even tried to buy some of those recently preserved
11:35 textiles and T told him no and I call [ __ ] on this I do not
11:41 think that is a true account of an actual event I do here’s a deal General
11:47 Benavides was well he was a military dictator right you don’t tend to remember presidents with the title of
11:55 General usually tends to imply something bad but history definitely remembers him
12:00 as a military dictator he was not above disappearing people he was not above
12:06 underhandedly and somewhat illegally persecuting his political opponents he’s
12:11 the kind of guy that would not hesitate to have someone disappeared I don’t see an archaeologist
12:19 that just got some funding for his freaking Pet Project being like I will not sell you one piece of cloth the
12:27 Americans they get four mummies en Tire bundles the president who’s staring me
12:33 down and could blow my brains out on the museum floor [ __ ] you buddy you don’t get one shred of Cl okay this is a
12:39 [ __ ] story I’m not we can speculate as to why they came up with this
12:44 narrative is it to to discourage people from trying to buy things illegally is it to look all great like re like like T
12:52 is a great revolutionary or something who [ __ ] knows what I do know is there is that story
12:59 I would sooner believe that Halo really happened and that Harry Potter is a true story than that that that there’s no
13:05 [ __ ] way but at any rate the museum was opened the collection was reconsolidated from the couple of
13:11 different locations it was being stored in and they went back to opening bundles every now and again they didn’t find any
13:17 beans but they did see some bones we know some of them did anyway oddly two of the anthropologists who worked on the
13:23 project and helped finance it Samuel K Loop and Marshall Newman didn’t bother
13:29 to record a single thing regarding their work on the collection now it’s strange
13:35 isn’t it these guys go to school then they travel to Peru and they spend a bunch of money to investigate these
13:41 enigmas and then they record nothing now they spent
13:47 money it’s almost like at this point it it seems pretty clear it’s like the the
13:52 experts involved like they see v-bucks when they look at these skulls they they don’t actually like see anything worth
13:59 documenting why would you care I especially not maybe if you could sell a piece or two of them out of it now
14:05 that’s speculative on my part but again you’ve got experts one after the
14:11 other after the other how many I don’t know how many was there I don’t know what size were there
14:18 I I don’t know did we investigate a bunch of them yeah what’ you write about I now tell passed in 1947 and Rebecca
14:25 keran Kow took over the job as director ctor of the national museum on anthropology and archaeology later that
14:32 year now she had studied under T and was pretty talented at navigating the Peruvian academic political Scene It
14:39 seems as one of the earliest things that she did regarding the paraca skulls was exhibit them in a surgery exp exhibition
14:46 obviously focusing on the truncations seen in many of the specimens in 1949
14:52 she opened the bundle up in the United States now they say this was recorded on film but I can’t find anything about it
14:58 and that’s not the only thing about this trip that’s weird they say that she packed up this thing or it was packed up
15:05 rather to be shipped via plane but then it didn’t fit on the plane and so they sent it via ship and somebody else
15:12 traveled with it instead of Rebecca carrying and 22 days later it arrived at its
15:20 destination and a Junius bird who is a anthropologist was quoted with saying
15:27 that it lacked a must smell and that’s a little bit odd it’s a little bit odd
15:33 that the thing was packaged in a way that wouldn’t fit on the plane it’s a little bit odd that they went ahead and just let it you didn’t repackage it just
15:39 send it and see [ __ ] 22 days no big deal and after 22 days for it to not to
15:45 have any sort of musky smell that’s really weird okay now this bundle had been displayed before but it had never
15:52 been opened so it’s got a dead body inside of it and it’s been in a box for 22 days at see how the [ __ ] does that
15:59 thing not smell like death doesn’t make any sense man now again this isn’t part
16:04 of as big of a deal as some of these other things but when you put it in line as a pattern it’s like dude this St just
16:10 it’s just weird man there’s it it very much to me reeks of so many people being
16:16 involved just being like and I bet you somewhere there’s a bunch of these damn skulls and other
16:22 Associated things from that site sitting in some rich dude’s basement or some such [ __ ] like I’ve got VHS t tapes not
16:30 in the early days of anthropology these kind of things were common but these sort of little mistakes and obvious
16:35 issues with the site keep popping up in 1951 something like 18 bundles were
16:41 illegally looted from the site itself which of course means we will never know what was in those and Kion used opening
16:48 of bundles to promote Peruvian archaeology over the next few years and she was very successful albeit no
16:54 footage was taken of these openings not that it matters cuz they w’t show you the footage anyway now she made a very
17:01 interesting statement in 1952 that over 70% of provian artifacts in the world
17:07 were housed outside of Peru she said that Berlin alone had almost 50,000 artifacts and that several other nations
17:15 held quite a large number of artifacts some of these are grave bundles and almost no record of these exists
17:22 certainly no record of any of them being opened that I could find exists a lot of
17:27 these they just exist on paper they haven’t even been repatriated some of them have been but by and large the
17:33 majority of this stuff is just kind of like now before getting married and apparently being forced to step down
17:39 from position as head of the museum because of that Ken donated one more
17:45 mummy to El Salvador and this one she was going to open herself and probably
17:51 to promote the site once more before she stepped down from her position now 160 of those wari Cayenne
17:58 and mummies had been damaged according to reports at this time due to improper storage still due to a lack of funding
18:06 now I am of the opinion that when they’re spending their funding on textiles and there’s entire mummy bundle
18:12 sitting there getting damaged I’m of the opinion that they’re not really being damaged that they’re being cracked open
18:19 and sold all right this skull’s cool this Ring’s cool this thing’s cool sell
18:25 sell sell seal them back up oh man these don’t sell so musky anymore for some
18:31 reason I don’t know about all that now the bundle that was donated to El Salvador was said to be open by car and
18:38 herself and she was also said to have prepared a presentation on that particular bundle the details of that presentation
18:45 were apparently presented in The Lima News but I can find no record of that I
18:50 can find no record of the presentation and neither can most academics it seems that once again the
18:59 actual work the actual part of this that would matter the part that would give us
19:04 real answers is gone how many times is this now next to
19:10 take over the collection was another student of Telos toriba mayja yesie I’m
19:16 sure I pronounced that horribly Maja was not in a position to promote the collection like caring it had been and
19:23 as a result he was unable to make much Headway until he retired from his Museum duties and was named director emirus of
19:29 the national museum of anthropology and archaeology and then he opened 54 bundles in 1967 and 68
19:38 54 and he recorded six of them he recorded six of them by number and bio
19:45 content the other 48 we don’t know anything about we don’t even know which ones they were presumably he just bagged
19:53 them back up and put them on the Shelf we don’t we don’t know we don’t know
20:01 once again now this time it’s 48 of them
20:06 48 let me let me let me drive that point home he opens 54 bundles 48 of them he
20:14 doesn’t record even which number bundle it is because they’ve got them all
20:19 archived right he’s not like oh it’s bundle 228 nope I opened the bundle oh these six
20:28 we’ recorded those tell me that something didn’t get sold there tell me that this there is not some sort of
20:34 [ __ ] going on and if you really believe that man I got a bridge to sell
20:39 you oh yeah and by the way at least two other times he opened mummy bundles and
20:45 didn’t record what he saw just I opened the bundle boys it was a fun day now the
20:51 records that we have either get better or more secretive since the80s it does
20:56 get harder to find information on the the opening of the bundles and the reports of the contents in more recent
21:02 times it’s clear many of these mummies have not been visible to the public in several decades with only a handful
21:08 being accessible to most people and the records are threadbear contradictory and untrustworthy I mean we can safely
21:15 assume that the best stuff was looted a long time ago is probably in private hands or long lost to the rest of us
21:22 anyway I mean at least 75 bags have either been looted or open opened and
21:29 not recorded at all and that’s not even counting the disparity in numbers in the initial count I mean again this is just
21:36 it’s is a continuous issue and it just goes all the way through the history of these things but that’s not the whole
21:42 story of these I mean we’ve got alternate historians as well right guys like Brian Forester who have a lot to
21:48 say about these sort of items I mean he believes that uh he he’s actually gone on record as saying that he had DNA work
21:56 done on these skulls and then it came back with you know some anomalous stuff here I’ll let him say it a total of 18
22:02 skulls was tested and results came back from 12 the DNA was so badly degraded
22:10 after 2,000 to 3,000 years that of the 58 samples of 18 skulls we got results
22:18 from 12 of the skulls from two different Laboratories one in Canada the Lakehead
22:24 University and another one at UCLA in California a third lab was also utilized at Santa
22:32 Cruz uh University of California but they stated that of the I think 18
22:38 samples they were given no results were forthcoming we’re we’re not sure if
22:43 that’s true or whether the results were so bizarre that they decided to hide them but there’s no links to the data no
22:51 proof that any of this actually happened I mean look it is nothing and that look
22:56 man that’s no better than the archaeologist is not recording their stuff either don’t tell me something
23:02 show me the receipts buddy this is how we like Advance scientifically this is
23:08 how we like prove we learn things because let’s be clear a lot of people
23:13 will lie for a lot of reasons some people to line in their pockets some people to for Prestige some people for
23:20 shits and giggles man so it’s important to be able to fact check somebody’s
23:26 claims especially on something contentious like this so you know here’s the deal man that
23:33 whole you know I have the data but you don’t know her she lives in Canada so
23:38 you haven’t met her kind of crap is never ever ever going to fly with me I’m sorry you’re always going to have to bring receipts or unless what you’re
23:46 telling me is something basic like paint dries I’m probably going to be a little
23:52 skeptical sorry and to truly drive home the issue I have with the data in this arena in 2022 a paper was published that
24:00 did a genetic analysis of the hair of one of the mummies in order to determ its genetic Origins the conclusions were
24:07 presented interestingly it seemed like a debunking paper to me it goes out of its way to explain red hair and it doesn’t
24:13 mention the fact that some of the locai included in the findings are usually considered to be from the old world but
24:20 what’s most hilarious about this to me is the skull that they used for
24:25 analysis take a look does that look enigmatic to you does
24:30 that look like the kind of skull that somebody’s going to say man I wonder if that’s an ancient alien or not or if
24:36 it’s going to be one that even Brian Forester would say yeah that’s that’s just cranial deformation man Mom and Dad
24:44 smacked that kid’s head with the board when he was little I think it’s pretty obvious that he’s not testing the skull
24:51 in this paper that needs like that’s going to debunk anything all right but
24:57 the paper is clearly set out to debunk those kinds of things so it it’s even today it’s we got a
25:05 little bit of smoke and mirrors and what kind of [ __ ] science paper tests one skull I mean since since when is that
25:11 any sort of evidence you can’t get five or six I mean there [ __ ] like 400 and some some arbitrary number of bundles
25:19 exists can’t you at least find two to test or five or 10 for [ __ ] sake man come on at least give me seven of the
25:25 damn things this is science you can rep replicability man give me some multiple test samples [ __ ] pathetic you know some
25:33 scientists believe that three different cultures were using that uh necropolis when it was first founded so if that’s
25:39 the case um you’re going to need to use the ones with a really big weird goofy skulls to even get the right culture but
25:47 at any rate if you’re trying to debunk claims you’re definitely going to need to use the ones that that you got some
25:53 serious top knot going on not just a little bit of smoosh but the problem
25:58 here is that um we have a bunch of unverified [ __ ] going on all across the board here right we have the pseudo guys
26:06 and the real scientists all giving us trust me bro
26:12 and dude that is um well that’s extremely problematic and and that
26:18 causes some issues that we see right now in the modern day like look at the Modern the alien mummies from Peru that
26:23 we see right now that a lot of people say you know look like cake or whatever and a lot of people are True Believers
26:29 in and then you know I look at it and I’m like you know it does it looks sketch I’ll be honest it does look a
26:35 little paper Mae at the same time people that have put their hands on it have
26:40 said that you know they would like to see more work done so I I would like to
26:46 see some work done I would love to see more work done but here’s the environment we we have you know everything’s it’s all smoking mirrors
26:52 you can’t even I don’t even know who to trust when I watch people talk about having handled
26:58 those things and as if that’s not bad enough this continues on in other aspects there
27:05 are small YouTube channels even popping up that that have these kinds of videos
27:10 that are like the artifacts being on Earth that are uncannily looking like you know Nephilim
27:16 or aliens or anino or the hell and quite often I
27:23 mean there’s no links same thing that’s really what it comes down to there’s it’s just just trust me bro see what I
27:29 found here and that’s like that’s that’s not going to that’s not going to get us anywhere that’s not going to do any good
27:36 but at the same time I wouldn’t be surprised at all of down in Peru and Bolivia [ __ ] right now is just kind of
27:42 Open Season on if you find something in your backyard you go crazy digging and you don’t call nobody because by the
27:49 time you do they’re going to steal all your [ __ ] and then it’s and it’s all about money for a lot of these people and it’s
27:56 just it’s it’s a big old mess okay and at the end of the day I don’t really
28:02 know who to trust I usually like to say at the end of one of my videos you know guys here’s here’s the thing I can’t
28:08 tell you for sure but here’s the direction I’m leaning you want to know the direction I’m leaning right now the
28:13 direction I’m leaning right now is the most mysterious [ __ ] that came from that site will probably never be in public
28:20 hands again and that’s sad because there is some enigmatic stuff there it is
28:27 weird those skulls are goofy and we’re not going to get any good data from them
28:32 it seems and the data that we get from the pseudo archaeologists and whatnot is
28:38 just as threadbear we’re not getting any data we’re getting the assertion that there is data
28:46 we had them tested boys and this is what it said show me the [ __ ]
28:52 tests and that’s where I keep finding a brick wall I do not find anything
29:00 verifiable and I know that the best stuff is certainly oh almost certainly
29:05 long gone so with the combination of both those things do you know what I have to say about those schulls they are very mysterious and I’m
29:12 certain that something’s weird about them I’m almost positive that something caused people to snap the [ __ ] out of
29:20 those things when they were first available on the market and people kept kicking the can to try to keep them
29:25 available on the market as long as possible and kept buying [ __ ] from those bundles long after history would like to
29:33 let you think that they did and because of that I don’t know what to think about
29:40 them and that sucks but they’re mysterious so I’m I hope you enjoyed the
29:46 video I I hope I helped clarify your position on these things so now that you’ve if you were certain that you knew
29:53 what they were you can either say Dan’s an idiot because I feel he is or HM I’m
29:58 less certain about things or maybe Dan’s an idiot because you know I am I mean my ex seems to think that anyway I want to
30:05 thank you all so much for showing up here and watching me Babble about something else that I you apparently
30:12 know nothing about [ __ ] that’s a great advertisement for a video but seriously uh I wish I knew
30:20 more about these but thanks a lot I do appreciate it so much I’m going to be speaking at the cosmic Summit this
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