EPISODE 49 | 'Merican Monuments (Travelogue 2)

Nations help tell the story of themselves to themselves with monuments, so let's look at two famous ones in the US of A - Mount Rushmore and the Washington Monument. Secret rooms and hatches, astonishing racial insensitivity, UFOs, Bigfoot, interdimensional portals, ancient weather control tech and a countdown calendar to the Apocalypse. That's a lot to deal with.

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SECTIONS

1. 01:55 - The Heads. You're Looking at the Heads: Mt. Rushmore (beginnings)


2. 05:32 - Who's who?


3. 07:05 - Suggested additions


4. 09:37 - Ch-ch-changes


5. 10:31 - A chamber of secrets


6. 13:54 - Black Hills Weirdness - UFOs, Bigfoot & portals


7. 16:47 - Fort Igloo & the Vivos Group


8. 18:04 - Mine's Bigger - The Crazy Horse Memorial


9. 21:51 - Tone Deaf Tourism - Stone Mountain, GA


10. 26:03 - Phallic. Appalling. The Washington Monument


11. 30:35 - Bench Mark A - a tiny monument


12. 31:26 - A monument in Maryland


13. 32:22 - Weather control device


14. 35:20 - Obelisks are scary


15. 36:33 - A monument to slavery


16. 38:33 - Countdown clock to Armageddon 

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info:

• 75 Surprising Facts about Mount Rushmore


• The Sordid History of Mount Rushmore in Smithsonian Magazine


• The heartbreaking, controversial history of Mount Rushmore in National Geographic


• Mount Rushmore’s Secret Chamber on History.com


• Conspiracy Theories podcast Mt. Rushmore episode transcript


• Trumpmore article


• 7 Ways to Enjoy Your Day at Mount Trashmore


• Atlas Obscura entries for area around Rushmore


• UFOs are no strangers to South Dakota in the Argus Leader


• Keystone’s “Big Foot Bash” a day of celebration and record-breaking


• Bigfoot Field Researchers Association South Dakota sightings


• World's Biggest wooden Bigfoot sculpture 


• Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field on Nasa.gov


• Igloo, South Dakota: The Utopia That War Built


• Vivos Group website


• Black Hills Attractions


• 7 Unexpected Things in the Black Hills


• Hotel Alex Johnson (haunted!)


• Rapid City, city of presidents


• Crazy Horse Memorial official website


• Crazy Horse Memorial travel website


• Crazy Horse Memorial article on Business Insider 


• Stone Mountain, GA


• Washington Monument website


• Washington Monument Access Hatch on Atlas Obscura


• Washington Mini Monument on Atlas Obscura


• Middleton Monument


• COULD WASHINGTON D.C. BE PROTECTED BY ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TECHNOLOGY?


• The Washington Monument Conspiracy


• Before 1619, there was 1526: The mystery of the first enslaved Africans in what became the United States


• Washington Monument Might Hide Masons' Prediction Of The Apocalypse In 2022 on Quest TV YouTube channel

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