The NEW Stonehenge Theory? 

I'd love to have one of the people who built Stonehenge around to laugh at us trying to figure it all out.

I'm a design engineer, and I think Stevens' machine would work just as well, and be a lot simpler, if you got rid of the turntable and just put a sliding counterweight near the center. If the loaded beam is close to being balanced, you only have to shift the CG (center of gravity) a couple of feet (a meter or so) to unload one foot and then back again to unload the other foot.

I did a recreation of Stonehenge on the UTPB campus in west Texas in 2004. My studies from that time led me to believe Stonehenge was originally a farmers calendar that then became a ceremonial party place for the Druids. I’d be happy to give a longer explanation of how we made a full scale astronomically correct replica if you are interested.

Love your take on lost history. I remember we used to picnic most weekends at stonehenge I used to climb all over those stones back in the day when no one took any notice of them 🙃 my Grandad was obsessed with trying to figure out their purpose lol.

Cool trip to stonehenge, what a treat, getting in there early before the crowds! 11:22 you can see the issues with this machine. It's an interesting idea, but just not plausible at scale. 1) you need to counterbalance the weight when it rotates, else the whole contraption would just tip over, as it nearly does in the footage at that point. They had a small enough weight that a person pushing down on the other end could counterbalance it. this counterbalance would need to be added and removed each time after you rotate the lever, as otherwise it wouldn't lighten one of the 'feet' in order to pivot the whole thing (which isn't plausible with large loads either, it would just drill down into the ground... you'd probably need bearings for that rotation also...) And the big issue is 2) all that weight is hanging off the end of a long lever. What exactly is that lever/boom made from? it would need to be incredibly rigid or strong enough not to just snap with a 10 ton load, let alone 100, or 1000... The swinging lever actually needs to support double the weight of whatever you are trying to move with the counterbalance. Every time you attempt this rotation you need to counterbalance the lever on the other side - as you can see him doing in by hand in the later demonstrations when he reduces the weight to make it more manageable. It would also need to be a tremendously strong pivot point.

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many dont know that "merlin" is a title given to the head of the druidic order. there were in fact ,many merlins. just a little knowledge i have picked up along the path. thank you for sharing this wonderful adventure with us all.

Fantastic! I am so jealous! Thanks for covering this and going to Stonehenge for us! It was wild to see the stones up close!

National Lampoon Europe Vacation Chevy Chase is a legend! Where is my present now!? 😁

If you take a look at the newly discovered Stonehenge scans that you shared, one of the images depicted a circle within a circle, within another circle. The image of those circles reminded me of one of your previous videos on The 7000 year old egg. The top of that egg had three circles too. Maybe there is a similar theme or connection yet to be discovered...Love your content!

What a great video! To have that access must have been amazing! Thanks for sharing!

Just left Stonehenge a few weeks ago whilst travelling the uk with our bees! This is a really interesting perspective! Great video! 🐝 xx

I like the theory that Merlin was an Engineer. I want to now add to the Arthurian saga that Merlin designed and built Camelot and gave Arthur the idea for a round table.

Best "trip" to Stonehenge that I have seen. Utterly objective (unbiased) and excellent story-telling along the way. Good research.

In the 80s there were no fences or security around stone henge. My father was in the RAAF and was in the UK in exercises. He landed his helicopter right next to it and the crew had lunch there. Amazing to be able to do that.

I have often wondered about the stone and metal balls. This guy is awesome, this is brilliant. Loving the 3d imaging, thanks so much, that a little more to think about.

The weathering on the stones it's way past three thousand years that's a lot of wear on a stone from rain and wind.... Beautiful place !

Wow Jahannah, the erosion and holes details as well as the lidar scanning attempt are truly spectacular and what a lucky ducky you are to get to get that close! I had the opportunity to walk amongst them about 15 years ago on the summer solstice, but I was only allowed to walk around them very shortly and I had not camera or phone with a camera back then! Just magic! Thank you for sharing with us!

Just wanted to say I recently found your channel and have been watching a number of your videos. Great content and I love the intro music. :)

You share my beliefs about history and you are absolutely intoxicating to learn things from. Thank you so much for the content and knowledge that you share. I’m very appreciative.

So exiting video and a totalt new theory for me! I was blown away! I also think about Michael tellinger and his work with stone circles.

Drove past there yesterday. Even from the road it fills me with wonder 😍

It’s so nice to see your channel growing. So glad Jimmy from bright insight informed me of your channel

You're so lucky!! I hope to see it myself one day! Thanks for sharing!

Favorite RU-vidr I just found.... I'd love 💕 love 💕 love 💕 if @Jahannah James made more long form video's 📸...I can't get enough of her comical viewpoint on our ancient history... She cracks me up 😹.. Have a Blessed day everyone ❣️ Thanks again for the content @Jahannah James🌈🌎👀

Man i gotta say. I absolutely love how jahannah is presenting things! jahannah you are a star! keep shredding girl!

thank you so much ! ill probably never get to see this with my own eyes but youve documented it perfectly. thank you again

Loved European vacation! Great vids, Im hooked!

its where they had raves

Looks to me the rocks were made to have a wooden structure on top of it. It’s most likely the foundation to a mostly wooden building.

JJ's voice is just absolutely sublime. I could listen to her talk forever. And she is a total dime.

Jahannah James excellent and interesting video as always. I remarked the perfect balance of sound level between your channel's intro and the actual video scenes... GREAT! As for what was the purpose of a structure like Stonehenge, my opinion (which I'm sure is 100% right) is that SH was used as a support for flying saucers' oil changings.... ;)

The "walking" is similar to the method they most likely used in Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Very cool!

The problem I have with this machine as ingenious that it’s is, it’s way more complicated than the simple wheel. It’s over engineered for the job. Most likely the stones from Stone Henge were dragged with heavy sleds and a lot of people.

This is fascinating and I love the creativity! Regardless, what a beautiful location and monument. Hope to get there some day.

I think I like this channel because your honest, speak your mind and your doing what I wish I could do for a living

Excellent work Steven! It’s a new theory!

Absolutely loved watching this, i'm so jealous of your opportunity to walk around the stones in the inner circle. my god you are a lucky woman! ❤ Loved the theory that Merlin could have been an engineer, i find that to be incredibly compelling and it would explain a lot. Excited for the next video, have a wonderful week! ❤

Walley World!!! ✊✊✊the coaster scene with Candy…he was great.

Good work. I like your passion for the unanswered and mysterious

Standing by! Good job Jahannah!

Do you know about newgrange in Ireland? It’s atleast 6,000 years old and far more impressive than stone henge but gets 0 attention for some odd reason

Well now, I could keep up with that crew, maybe. Thanks again, Jahannah! You are my new go-to Historian!!

It warmed my heart to think of the hours of thinking, designing, and building that guy did to make his machine. I bet his wife is fully supportive also. One to pass on to the grandchildren.

Wow, I am impressed, I think this theory is better than all the rest. Their is another man who has moved several tons of obelisk type stones, and just with him and his technique. I think his is pretty good too.

I've recently been watching some really interesting videos about the idea of yugas. I could do years of research on it, and I may be able to barely wrap my head around it. But at the height of one of these cycles, or yugas, they talked about the knowledge of energies and the ability to harness and use it in ways we can't imagine. I couldn't help to tie that in with the utter perfection of the stonework in India and Egypt and all the way to South America.

You're awesome JJ! Always enjoy your content.

Just found your channel today excellent :-) all myths and legends have elements of truth in them keep the good work going

Really interesting video! In Easter Island, the local legend is that the giant stone statues - the Moai - walked to their final destinations. This has been expermiented, by wobbling the stones vertically balancing them first on one side and then on the other, using the same principle you show in your video, but without the machine, only using the weight and inertia of the stone and a lot of ropes. On another note, the first thing I learnt in German was: "Ich habe sauerkraut in meiner lederhosen" Only Chevy Chase could think that up!

Just checked for this.. been waitingg

lovin your vids JJ... keep up the great work :)

This makes more sense than anything I have seen before. Love what your doing.

I was amazed to see how many brothers and sisters Stonehenge has! Are they planning to do more digs? Thanks for sharing!👽

They can build a bunch of perfect consecutive circles but somehow didn't think of rolling motion and create a wheel?

RadIcal. Awesome episode. Coolest theory yet😃

Nice one Jahannah and Stephen. You can imagine teams working with this technology - lots of pulling (on ropes?). It could account for the stories of singing stones into place - teams of people keeping their pulls to a "beat" using singing - similar to sea shanties on sailing ships.

I like your theory ... Merlin the Engineer ... More like an ancient DaVinci ...

Found you a couple months ago, I’m hooked. Keep going. Between you, Hancock, Carlson, Jimmy and UnchartedX. Faves

I love your channel, so much better than any mainstream channel on tv

Randal Carlson mentioning you on JRE brought me to your channel, and Im loving the content.

I absolutely LOVE your documentaries! It's so cool, to see someone, actually taking all of this evidence, seriously. Also, qudos to you, for having the guts to say, "I don't know"!!!

Extremely interesting. I've never heard this theory before.

I love new ideas . With new ideas we can take off bits of the idea and make our own new ideas .Maybe the stones were not canterleavered but the "ball bearings " were used for something . Well done

Beautiful video, thank you!! Very interesting.

His rock mover makes sense and SH being a blueprint does too in a way, Henge is a circle in a circle, most people don't know there is a huge band of burried rocks around the monument and it looks just like the layout of his bearings. Still leave a LOT unexplained but it does hold some water for sure.

How can the "Stone Walking Machine" go up or down inclines, move over uneven rocky terrain, ford streams, or go through soggy bogs and depressions ?? Love all your work, Jahannah ! MJF, PhD in Buffalo, NY, USA

Awesome theory! First time I've ever heard it but I agree. It definitely holds some weight to it

Love your channel and all of your great ideas

So the theory is they didn’t have the wheel yet, but somehow invented this FAR more complex moving contraption?? lol, I’d bet the wheel was invented long before 3300 BC.

I've always suspected the stones were brought most of the way if not all through glaciation as Salisbury is located South east of the point in Wales they came from especially as the blues are on a mountain top just ripe to be plucked by a passing river or solid ice carried down the valleys into Wiltshire the same route the river seven takes but on a much grander scale.

When I was at Stonehenge there was quite a blow on. Bad weather is of course the best time to visit at tourist site as it thins the crowds out marvelously 😊. The curious thing was as I walked around the site the wind seemed to always be coming from the center of the stone circle. Also for anyone planning a visit there Salisbury Cathedral is a must see.

I have been watching your videos for about week now. To sum up, Your beautiful, intelligent and funny. I hope your bloke knows how lucky he is. I could watch you read the dictionary, but no. You talk about such fascinating topics i have been interested in for years, and giving me so many details and facts i didn't know. So thank you and please keep the vids coming.

Thanks Jahannah - love your work, especially anything surrounding Egypt and the Pyramids. I was keen to see the stone moving idea, but agree with some below that it seems impractical - even if it did work how did they lift the top stones into place..??

That method of moving the stones is the best method I have seen

Whether or not this is the answer, it could be an answer. I recently discovered your channel and I thoroughly enjoy your take on things.

Those nodules on top of the stones bely the fact that there was engineering even back then.

Thank you! That was really cool to see! The part I don't get about any of these ancient tech sites is... if you are smart enough to do all that... how the heck do you not have wheels yet? I know my mind is prejudiced here because I saw wheels when I was a baby, so they seem natural to the world in a way, but I have also made some crafts before, and the way the mind comes up with solutions through working on problems seems pretty fundamental to humans. So, when working at such lengths and coming up with such complex contraptions that use arcs and circles and rotation and even bearings... why not wheels? I am genuinely curious.

Love your work. Always keen on fresh ideas. We know now that we have 'lost' much knowledge and technology. So many clever devices, gone. Not gone are the horrid chemtrails in the sky on that day you visited.

I enjoyed your presentation of a new theory about the reason for Stonehenge. Beautiful day to walk amongst the stones. I only see dreamers with an idea, the money and time to play. That's living the good life. My worst theory is; The More Stones I Get The Boulder I Become. Hold my pint!!✌😎

Would the stone walking contraption having a Wheel make the invention of the wheel much older then first imagined? When you think about it if early man was using rollers or little steel balls to move things then they'd have to have known about wheels, I mean what is a Roller if not a long wheel? Being a primitive human doesn't necessarily mean they were stupid, Our ancestors managed to survive long enough to have had children for us to have followed on from them, They certainly had more fulfilling lives and togetherness then we have today.

Thank you for a very interesting video, the walking the stones machine seems very implausible although a great idea. What happens when you come across the stream gully or brook big river and uneven ground which you would. Surely the stone balls would constantly crush to powder under the weight and the counterbalance would be so difficult to swing around as somebody pointed out in one of the other comments. However it's nice to see somebody engaging a few brain cells and coming up with a thesis. Keep up the good work there.

Interesting and fun 😂 Thanks for sharing 👍

Absolutely love your videos!

Merlin & Arthur always seem placed somewhere in the early 'Dark Ages,' though film/TV always seem to cast them in the nascent Middle Ages - 'Arthur of the Britons' being the notable exception to this rule. Even so, Stonehenge would still be thousands of years before the Age of Arthur & Merlin. So time-wise, with Stonehenge we're really talking more 'Cavelot' than Camelot, Jahannah.

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My theory.. the reason we see different civilizations of all kinds across the world with megalithic stone circles is they knew something we didn't, and I think that was earth being in the direct path of some major comet or debris field out there in space..it's like, ok we need shelter, fire, food, and a way to know when we need to go under ground again to survive the next time. We hear stories of civilization coming up from underground, restarting, reseeding.. Love your work! Your amazing

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The whole place was rebuilt in the 1950s, so we will never know its true age or originality.

My theory is that they built these ancient sites to keep track of the constellations and seasons to detect future cataclysmic events. Read “The Adam and Eva Story” by Chan Thomas. As far as the engineering and true timeline of civilization will be anyone’s guess. But all major sites across the world were built to withstand seismic activity and aligned with stars, constellations, and the solstices.

A very cool, and at the same time, quite simple and ingenious idea. That makes it very likely, or at least, something like this. Even if for the long distances there was another way to move the heavy stones, this makes placing them precisely much more realistic.

Really interesting Video and many thanks for making and posting:) Going off slightly on a tangent, and thank you for your patience, while I go off on one:) Stonehenge and all the surrounding structures where built to re-enforce British pride in being Ancient British (Celtic) in the face of peoples coming to our shores from mainland Europe. Like we Brit's can do this, this is our land and our heritage. Of course in much later centuries the Romans invaded as well, which diluted our original Celtic identity even more, but only for about 400 years:- To wax lyrical for a moment:- Barbarians were hammering on the gates of Rome, and the once mighty Empire was collapsing in disarray. Hastily and frantically, the once powerful legions were recalled from far flung outposts to defend their motherland in a bitter fight to save and restore the glory that, had once been Rome. It was around 400A.D. when they let loose their grip on Britain, abandoning the culture they had imposed on most of the island of Britain, for over four hundred years. At roughly the same time, raiders from across the North Sea were already steering a course that was to unleash brutal havoc on the confused people of this country. A period of darkness descended upon this land and it's people's; and for several hundred years this "Dark Age" lay like a shroud over recorded history, only giving occasional glimpses of the grim fighting, barbaric horrors and eerie mysteries of the time. Amongst the more mysterious people in those distant days were the Druids; the strange priests of a cult that thrived amongst the Celtic peoples of Gaul and Britain. Since the beginnings of their history (which were long, long before any Roman set foot in Britain), they had a strong and mystic influence over their followers. They were scholars, early scientists, men of medicine, extraordinary astrologers and astronomers, who held the secret keys to all religious rituals and doctrines. The Druids were said to be masters of the worlds oldest religion; a form of Shamanism (Similar in some respects to Hinduism and the ancient religion of Tibet, called Bon), and preservers of the hidden esoteric secrets and hidden pre-history of Atlantis, only known to the highest initiates. Understandably, they were what might be described as Magicians and Wizards, and there is little doubt they displayed powers that would mystify us even today. But of all their mysteries, one was more commonplace than any. Since the start of their very long history, which stretched into the thousands of years B.C., they were renowned for what was called the "An-da-shealladh". The gift of the two sights, and the ability to see into the future. Most famous of the Druids (at least in the most recent of Druidaic history), and most uncanny prophet of them all was Abrosius Merlin. Merlin! His name must be known by millions, his reputation bound forever with that of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. At sometime every schoolboy and girl must have read the tales of these legendary figures and how the great magician aided Arthur in so many ways.

Excuse me, did she really mentioned that there are "metal balls" lying around in various ancient neolithic sides? And then showing a google search result for "carved stone balls"? Good video non the less!

I just love that intro man. So creative lol You should really get your guy who took lsd in Egypt, take it at Stone Henge and see if he gets anything from it..

Glad to see we have a hottie looking into earth mysterys and ancient High technology.

that walking machine was quite impressive. the size of the blocks at stone hedge was quite impressive. interesting vid.

Years ago I studied stonehenge and I figured out it's to track the planets and lines up with stars. As long as you make Wisconsin the north pole. Some one else 20 years ago figured it out too. It's observatory astroclock. 30,000 years old then

That machine is fascinating!! And it is so cool you got to visit Stonehenge! I had never heard it was related to the story of Merlin before so that is something new to me. But to be honest I probably know more about the pyramids than Stonehenge...

Elegant as always!

Fantastic video. Really interesting.

Come do a vlog on the Serpent Mound here in America.