By Tim Binnall
The lost continent of Mu, antediluvian giants, and several different aspects of the UFO enigma were explored this past week on Coast to Coast AM. And, here at the C2C website, we told you about an ancient stone circle that wasn't, an update to the ominous Doomsday Clock, and a pair of possible Bigfoot sightings. Check out our round-up of highlights from the past week ... In Coast You Missed It.
The UFO phenomenon took center stage on C2C this past week in the form of three fascinating programs. First, researcher John Greenewald discussed his groundbreaking work unearthing and collecting government documents devoted to the topic via the FOIA on Saturday night's program. Then, on Sunday night, Diana Walsh Pasulka talked about UFO believers and Chris Rutkowski recounted a legendary Canadian UFO case alongside the son of the witness to the event. Following that, on Tuesday night's program, ufologist Paola Harris recalled her time working with a number of legendary researchers and shared stories of ET contact.
The discovery of an ancient stone circle is often cause for celebration among archaeologists keen to examine these glimpses of the distant past. Unfortunately, this past week provided a disappointing instance where such a find went wildly awry when it was revealed that a newfound monument in Scotland that made headlines back in November turned out to be a stone circle replica created by a farmer in the 1990s. While the news left researchers crestfallen, since the site was considered unique due to its no-longer-mysterious state of near-pristine condition, thankfully the miscue was discovered before any serious work on the stone circle had been done.
One of the more tantalizing realms in the world of the paranormal is the possibility that giants once roamed the Earth in the distant past. On Monday night's program, scientist Michael Tellinger made the case for this scenario via a number of cases of inordinately large human bones and teeth being found, including one such stunning instance where the entity seemingly stood one mile tall! He also speculated on where these giants may have gone and indicated that the Great Flood appears to have had a hand in their demise.
This past week proved to be a big one for Bigfoot, beginning with an interesting new video from Utah which may have shown the legendary cryptid lurking on a mountainside. Although the footage is admittedly difficult to discern, the story stood out because the witnesses not only later ventured out to the spot to see if they could find any evidence, but a Sasquatch research group did as well and seemingly spotted some prints in the snow. Later in the week, a story emerged from a truck driver in Australia who claimed to have encountered that country's version of Bigfoot, known as the Yowie, and that it slammed its fist on the hood of his vehicle when the two nearly ran into each other on a road.
Did the legendary lost continent of Mu really exist? Musician and longtime UFO researcher Merrell Fankhauser explored this question on Wednesday night's program and intriguingly argued that Hawaii is, in fact, the remnant of this vanished world. To that end, he revealed several remarkable stories about exploring the islands and finding curious sites such as a stone staircase that he was told by his guide was a stairway to the people of Mu and what seemed to be some kind of ancient altar that was dated to be at least 10,000 years old.
The annual assessment of the current state of affairs in the world known as the 'Doomsday Clock' was announced this week and, despite what may seem like the crumbling of civilization, a team of experts determined that we're pretty much where we were last year and opted not to change the time on the barometer of peril. Before you start popping champagne bottles, however, the scientists behind the decades-long survey of global affairs described an untenable situation in which nuclear proliferation and climate change are being allowed to continue largely unabated and the debate over these issues has been undermined by information warfare.
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