There might be a vote coming up on whether or not the country your VPN is set to should purchase F-35's/increase their defense budget so they're showing you how bad ass our jets and weapons are so you vote yes.
I bought a little crystal skull at a market once and the lady tried to tell me all the healing powers it had and I was just standing there like "I just thought it would look cool on my book shelf..." still have it, little bastard hasn't healed me at all😂 it does look neat on my shelf though.
I’m an archeologist who specializes in the Maya and have worked extensively in Belize. I also have a friend who has spent years excavating Lubatuun. You show was perfect. I can tell you 100% that the Hedges skull is not Maya and all the legends about Maya skulls are modern inventions. The skull was produced in Germany from Brazilian quartz crystal. I was in the room when a reported aske Dr Jaime Awe, Director of Belize’s Dept of Archaeology, if he would be requesting repatriation of the skull. He looked at the reporter, laughed, and stated since the skull was fake Belize did not want anything to do with it.
I'm a former archaeologist from Ireland, I still practice part-time but had to change to teaching due to health. If it's any help, we get crappie like this I Ireland too, particularly regarding our ancient sites and new-age religions. How many times I have to explain to completely serious tourists that leprechauns are in fact a modern invention from at earliest 1850s to promote Irish abroad and that ancient legends referring to leprechauns describes them as vicious scally small sea creatures would shock you? Ah well
I just had a brilliant video idea for Decoding the Unknown. The Tasmanian Tiger or Thylacine has been believed extinct since 1936. New evidence shows that it may have gone extinct later. But interestingly there are still reported sightings to this day and some people believe that the Thylacine is still alive. It would definitely make a fascinating topic and it's also a topic that has at least a small amount of plausibility with there actually being some videos of potential sightings. If you want anything else of a similar topic to add to the intro I suggest the Eastern Mountain Lion or Eastern Cougar which was declared extinct in 2011. Turns out that it may not be extinct as it may not have been a separate species from the similar and populous Western Mountain Lion. While this is less exciting, it actually may have been this discovery that resulted in a new look at the sighting reports of the Thylacine and the new, but equally depressing model shows that the Thylacine may have been alive until 1980-2000 (on the highest end of estimates). While I don't think they are still alive, some Australians are adamant that they are and some say that they don't report sightings of them because they think no one else can be trusted
I actually found a crystal skull back in 2019, not human size but the size of a nickel. I had stopped to get a drink and looked down as I was leaving at this shiny little object. Kept it for a few years and then passed it along. Another awesome decode!
Simon, they can’t do carbon dating, for 2 reasons: first, there should not be any appreciable amount of carbon-13 or carbon-14, secondly, if there is any carbon to test, it would only tell you the formation of the crystal, not when it was carved.
Was looking for someone who had said this, you can’t carbon date carving marks. For that matter, you can’t directly date carving marks with any radio-decay dating type. You would have to date the strata above and below where the object was found, and even then that would just tell you when something was deposited, not necessarily when it was made
4:25 - Chapter 1 - So many skulls 10:00 - Mid roll ads 11:35 - Chapter 2 - The mitchell/hedges skull 29:10 - Chapter 3 - The smithsonian skull 31:25 - Chapter 4 - The british museum crystal skull 34:25 - Chapter 5 - The Paris Skull 36:15 - Chapter 6 - Max, the gift to mankind PS: For the F35 story, it's maybe because they are fans of Megaprojects ?
I think Simon is a disinformation agent paid to distract people from whats true. Also, have you noticed how they try to make it seem like people with British accents are some type of authority figure? What training has this geek had, that we should take his opinion on this subject seriously? The powers that be don't want people thinking about these skulls and what they were used for
The mystical crystal skulls got tired of Simon doubting their abilities and cut him off at the end. All praise the mystical crystal skulls of the god Grift-o!
So, there's 2 definitions of crystal: Crystal: a specific glass-like material known for being particularly heavy, fragile and being easily shaped into very delicate shapes. The stuff those really fancy overpriced wine glasses and serving bowls are made of. Crystal: a crystalline structure. Basically anything solid that has its atoms and molecules arranged in a repeating pattern. Which is a LOT of things that are solid, if you zoom in far enough. Large crystals of otherwise common materials like quartz can be notable semiprecious (or even precious) stones based on their size and contaminants that give distinct colours - amethyst for instance is quartz, the most abundant mineral in the world, it's just got something in it that makes it purple, and its marketable when it forms crystals large enough that a jeweler can do something with that purple to make it look good. (Ruby and Sapphire are 2 precious gemstones that are the same mineral - corundum - but with different contaminants - one that gives it a lovely red and one that gives it a lovely blue) (Side note: the bigger a crystal is, the rarer it is. Crystals form naturally when lava or magma cools, and the faster it cools, the smaller the crystals you get. For crystals as large as these skulls to form, you'd need very very slow cooling, otherwise you'd have other crystals start to form and they'd grow into each other. (If you've ever seen the inside of a geode, that's what's going on there). Quartz is by far the most common material on the planet, so there are several places where large crystals like this have formed, but they would still be rare. Excepting possibly halite, a naturally formed crystal of this kind of size would probably be unique and potentially priceless to any mineral museum or private collection.)
Simon look up a place called "giant crystal cave" if you wanna see some big crystals. Who am I kidding you've probably done a geographics on it by now.
I found a crystal skull once! It was in a gift shop and the "owner" wanted a fair bit of money for it. I left it on the glass shelf in the locked case with the other 25 or so of various sizes and colors.
"Crystal" for those who might wonder, is the term used to refer to leaded glass. There are indeed other things that form crystals, but you would say "quartz crystals" or "ice crystals". When you say something is made of crystal, you're referring to leaded glass. For example, "crystal wine glasses" or "a crystal bowl" or in this case, crystal skulls. That's why they said they're not actually made of crystal, though they are often made of carved quartz.
Yeah, more or less. Most things people call 'crystals' are just cut glass into that shape everyone thinks of when you say crystal. But glass isn't crystalline, it's amorphous, unlike... iron (among a lot of other things like diamond, or many other things that actually form crystalline atomic structure) very silly when you look at most 'healing crystals' and they're not even crystalline.
@@SinkkingTurrtle well there are definitely real crystals of various different rocks. But the reason they said in this that the skulls aren't "crystal" is just because most of them are made of "quartz crystal" which isn't what people mean when they just say "it's crystal".
The lead content has to be 24% or more to be considered crystal. The glass tends to be much nicer looking and it makes a nice ringing sound when struck unlike normal glass. It also splits light a lot more unlike normal glass.
And... lead crystal when talking about the glass. Used to work for a lead crystal seller. Or just crystal. "Honey, get out the crystal, we have champagne" is lead crystal. "I'm looking into a crystal ball" or "here's a crystal skull" may be quartz crystal... But they are all called "crystal" for short. Actually, I've sold the quartz kind, too.
The carved skulls resonate at the same frequency as the human brain? Sure, if those brains are made of rocks. A situation I think we can all agree is actually happening in this case.
Great episode again. Simon should have his very own self moulded crystal skull and buried somewhere that won't be found for hundreds of years in the future. It'll have them scratching their heads and making YT videos about the mystery of the crystal skull found that had a wise beard ❤
And when they tap into the piezoelectric field, it starts playing ads for Surfshark, NordVPN, Ridge Wallets, Hello Fresh, Squarespace, Magic Spoon, or Keeps. Allegedly.
I have a hilarious book named Crystal Healing that literally spends the first half of the book basically saying “nope. Nope. Nope. Not a thing.” And then the second half essentially explaining why people think it is (spoiler alert: it’s a combination of placebo effect and many of these “healing methods” involving consuming water and/or meditation, which are things we actually DO know can be helpful 😂)
The truth about the skulls is that they are all very good works of art made in the 19th and 20th century but passed off as being made in BCE Mesoamerica because them being "ancient artifacts" makes them more expensive. I definitely think they are deserving of a place in museums as works of art, but the history behind them is sadly never going to be truly known because they were made by scammers.
My first ever job was in a "witch shop". The word you are looking for is metaphysical or occult bookstore. I miss that job. The owner actually kept a bottle of baileys in the fridge so we could use it as cream in our coffee and I once got an ounce of high grade weed as a surprise bonus. The money was straight too. We charged $1 a minute for readings, split 50/50 between the reader and the store, on top of a $7.50 an hour base wage (this was in 2003), so on a busy day you could make up to $35 an hour. I got out of that business when the grift got too real. I had a very reliable repeat customer ask me, a clueless 18 year old with a deck of cards, if she should divorce her husband, and I was like "Um...you see the 'this is just for entertainment' sign right?" After seeing the level of trust people actually put into what I thought was just a fun little diversion for them, I couldn't justify taking the money anymore so I got out of that industry and joined the military, which was a whole different ethical can of worms but hey, that's life.
Quartz is silica. Silica softens and can dissolve in contact with a strong alkali solutions like lye. Translation: Soaking quartz in strong lye solution softens it enough that wooden or copper tools remove the stone with ease. Cuts we have trouble with were a question of patience for the Masters. Soak, scrape, repeat until done. Wax or lacquer masks restrict chemical action to select areas. A craftsman might have 20 pieces soaking in lye, working them round-robin. Lye is easily made from wood or plant ashes. Soaking the piece in clean water or a mild acid (fruit pulp) removes the caustic ions from the surface. All that's left is polishing off the 'rind' of chemically affected quartz with fine sand...also silica! Who knows? Maybe the lye/scraping process leaves quartz with the beautiful surface finish we see today? The general lack of polishing marks suggest a 'chemical peel' at some point.
"Mysterious" crystal skulls were featured in the early 1980s on a TV show, I think it was That's Incredible, where they went through all the paranormal bits and ancient history bits. Towards the end of the segment, they demonstrated tooling marks that were considered of modern industrial processes and that the mystery skulls were likely made in the 1930's or after.
I’m wondering if the English word for that shop your wife was translating for you is “Pagan”. That’s essentially what came to my mind when you said “Witch” shop
It was probably just an Apothecary. Which is about as witchy as a drugstore and purfume shop mixed together I suppose. Depends on the vibe they were going for, I guess.
There were some studies about vibrations helping with osteoporosis. Cats will purr when injured because it actually helps them heal faster. They did some tests where they had people laying on a metal table or something and had it vibrating at the frequency that cats purr. Apparently it did actually help the people. Didn't cure them, but still made it not as bad.
So glad Simon finally covered the Crystal Skulls. I remember hearing about those crystal skulls around the time the Indiana Jones movie was announced. Back then the real science hadn’t been done on the skulls so the only story that was reported was the believers version.
I loved the bewilderment with which people treated that movie. "Really? Crystal skulls? Aliens?" As if it had crossed some line. Oh, so the Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail, and the Temple of Doom were all factual? Please, tell me more. People having issues with the quality of the movie is fine, that's one thing. But acting as if the rest of the series wasn't all complete fringe archaeology was just exceptionally odd.
This was clearly an instance of divine intervention from a skull focused demon of the underworld.Simon,and his channels have now been consumed,and transferred to an alternate crystal dimension,where all is crystal,and crystal is all.Its very unfortunate,and we shall mourn his loss.Only a demon would cut off a video so abruptly.
That's probably one of the saddest parts of the story is it's a great piece of Artwork and making it something that it's not just diminishes the Skill of the artist
I absolutely love when Simon doesn't know what a word means and I can spout a definition out while he checks what it means. I plan on trying to get on the game show jeopardy after my mom kept being shocked at how many answers I knew when watching the show and another called masterminds with her over a little while. I actually keep videos of his from his different channels going on for background noise because he covers so many subjects and I absorb information like a sponge and learn well by just having stuff and listening to it. This doesn't happen very often because he does cover so many subjects and is constantly learning himself so it feels good.
The Mitchell-Hedges skull is a pretty amazing piece of art. Not a real ancient artifact, but the quality of the work done on it is incredible. Something made to that amount of detail would be worth a couple grand at least. So, still kind of cool, ancient Mayan secret or not. 🙂
As a native of the island of Cape Hatteras, I was delighted to hear Simon reference it - though I had to turn on CC and rerun it to make sure of what I heard. It's not pronounced like that, but I like hearing Simon say it that way.
@@JRockySchmidt lol.... how can I forget when I'm actually listening to him? Besides, he was close - our accent on the island is derivative of his. We don't sound like other Southerners.
From my understanding quartz watches aren't using the piezo effect to generate a charge but instead an electrical current is imparted into the sliver of quartz causing it to vibrate and it's this consistent vibration that is then used to set the timing of the watch. Quartz vibrates a couple thousand times per second (I may be wrong on the actual number there but it's a lot) so the brainbox (that black blob on the circuit board of the watch) counts the vibrations and in turn advances the clockwork at each count.
I'm in a writer's group with a guy who writes books about ancient giants, mystical sites, and straight up idolizes Art Bell and George Noory. At our first zoom meeting, I thought there was no way anyone ACTUALLY believed this crap, so I blurted out, "Oh yeah, I saw a Simon Whistler video on that conspiracy theory. Crazy stuff!" Crystal skulls won't kill you, but the look he gave me might, haha! Since then, I try to not say "conspiracy theory" about his books. I mean, if he can sit there and respectfully listen to the rest of us talking about fantasy, sci-fi, and my obsession with historical fiction, I'll give him the respect for his craft and listen to his stories about his "research."
I actually liked Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skulls. Everyone got all pissy because "Omg aliens this is just so unbelievable". Meanwhile the original Indiana Jones movies had all kinds of wacky supernatural things happen.
Crystals are pretty, I love shiny things! The skulls carved out of some are really cool! But... Simon is right... THEY DON'T DO ANYTHING! If you're expecting more from your crystal than to look pretty, your in for a LONG wait. They don't make your skin "younger" either. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ PS...I don't think you have to worry about Ilza being serious. She does, after all, write for the self-proclaimed biggest skeptic of all time. 👍👍👍
the one downside of being a pagan who likes pretty rocks is having to explain to friends to whom one is (so to speak) out of the broom closet that, no, you don't think Pretty Rock no.467 has any inherent power to it, you just think it's neat.
I have several crystals that I’ve bought over the years from stalls at various places selling crystals and polished rocks. When you buy them the stall,owners will usually rave on about how this crystal or that has some powers of some kind. When they ask how you’re going to “use it”, I just shrug and say “I just think it’s cool how crystals have formed and how they look, but they’re just a rock…” They usually don’t like that answer…😂
@@TheWombat2012 It's almost like you are speaking to a "charming" street preacher, where you take the proffered religious pamphlet purely for the purpose of pointing out the contradictions. But I have a nice collection of shiny things at home adorning my potted plants and the like. Except that lately they are being used to delineate the kids indoor RC car tracks, "tight left around around hot rock corner, along double poop stone straight, 360° around fossilised baby's head, through dolomite corner" *sigh!
Let's get real, at this point Simon has to make enough money to buy one of those shiny new F-35 jets. I vote the next video be about Simon doing March 1.6 while staying awake.
I can't believe Simon as a big Stargate fan makes no SG1 references in this episode. There was an SG1 episode about crystal skulls. Also the series rely heavily on crystals being a better way to store data.
I have a random rock that I found and painted it to look like a ladybird with nail varnish.🐞 It's about the size of my palm and when I have migraines I place it on my forehead and it helps. Mainly because it is naturally cold and weighted. It's not magical but it's handy to have around when I get my frequent migraines. 🐞
I have the Mayan calendar tattooed on my left shoulder blade. Back in my druggie hippie past when I was also really into New Age stuff I was obsessed with the Crystal Skulls as well as Aztec and Mayan culture. I went to Mexico to see their pyramids. Mexicans would buy me Coronas bevause I had one of their national symbols tattooed on me. It was a fun time but I'm so glad I'm a different person now. 😂
People say I have a small brain because I bought a carbon monoxide detector. They say I wasted my money, because I don't have natural gas or propane appliances. They say electric heat and hot water heaters don't produce CO gas. I told them that Simon said I needed one and they say Simon has a small brain too! I'm not a small brain, and if Simon says I need a CO monitor then I need one! I'm smrter oops smarter than Homer Simpson, so I have a big brain. Doh!
Fun fact: any rock is a or is composed of Crystals most are just not jewelry grade. in fact there are feldspars that have grown crystals as big as houses
Hahaha, my uncle does that!!! So I keep a deadpan face until he cracks himself up, and then I explode in laughter. That really urges him on to laugh harder... haha.
The jaw was found several meters away... I'm disappointed that Simon didn't make a joke about how that sort of thing happens when you do archeology with dynamite. If the daughter's story was true. About archeological discoveries. Allegedly. Alleged discoveries.
Quartz is crystalline - close packed hexagonal. It does not emit unsolicited healing energy of any kind. But a thin slice excited by electricity makes a dandy oscillator. More of it appropriately cast make good lab "glassware" - or a legendary bong.
I can indeed confirm Death follows these crystal skulls. Totally true! I generally find these skulls at the bottom of old moving boxes along with long-dead loose My-little-pony limbs, a strange mix of weird particles consisting of broken-down elastic band bits fused with styrofoam pieces and dead bugs and partially dissolved memorabilia from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
After watching the first minute and twenty seconds I cannot wait for Simon to learn about Y2K and how the only issue was that most operating systems used 2 digits to signify the year in it's software. The theory was that in 2000 the computers would think it was 1900 and cease to function.
I may be wrong, but the way I heard it, there actually were some machines, like computers in hospitals, that were at risk of malfunctioning at the turn of the century, but work was put into the systems to mitigate it.
@@Crawfishnessyeah that’s true. Lots of people today think it was a non-event, like just a theory that bad stuff would happen or whatever, but in fact it was a very real and relatively serious issue that only ended up not affecting people because it was identified a a good few years before millennium, and a large number of people put a LOT of work into fixing it in time! Source: was there
The reason it took 300 years is that they ' carved ' it by rubbing the features into it by using a rough piece of woven cloth. Ta Da solved the riddle of why 300 years.
Quartz is a crystal. Generally, crystal is a faceted mineral. Quartz, diamond, fluorspar (fluorite), and other clear stones that grow facets are crystals. Also,the glass on your old wind-up watch is called a crystal.
'We only needed 8 skulls to avert the apoc...' Holy shitballs the Skulls took out Simon before he could actually finish the video! Illuminati confirmed! (X-files theme plays)
Regarding your F-35 ads: I’ve got a job in the automotive sector, and when I was visiting Detroit several years back I noticed billboards along the highway advertising companies that supply larger businesses and do not sell to the public. Placed along a freeway I was told many employees of General Motor’s head offices commute on. My work PC gets ads for all sorts of specialty industrial stuff. If they can identify a way to reach the right people, they’ll advertise anything. My guess is the ad algorithm picked up on Warographics and Megaprojects and decided you MUST work in the defense sector.
