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EPISODE 120 | OOPArts Doompa-Dee-Doo

Sometimes people find something… interesting, maybe even mysterious. What is that? they ask. And then they or someone else makes a logical leap and says oh, wow, here is the missing link I’ve been looking for that proves all my theories that until now have been ridiculed or ignored. And not even scientists are immune to this very common and very human process.

We’re looking at out of place artifacts, or OOPArts – things found in an unusual context. This might, upon examination, indicate that certain civilizational develops happened much earlier than we had thought or, if you’re of a certain bent, be used to further narratives of ancient advanced civilizations, Atlantis, ancient aliens, time travel, or the literal truth of the Bible.

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SECTIONS

1. 02:27 - Cheer Up, Charlie - The Diquis Spheres, the Plain of Jars, the Eltanin Antenna, the Baigong Pipes, Starchild Skull, the Paluxy Tracks, the Meister Print, the Wolfsegg Iron (Salzburg Cube), the Klerksdorp Spheres; the Yonaguni Monument, the Land of Mu and Zealandia
2. 25:35 - I Want It Now - The Dorchester Vase, the London Hammer, the Kingoodie artifact, the Coso Artifact, the Wedge of Aiud
3. 34:39 - (I've Got a) Golden Ticket - The Shakōkidogū, the Quimbaya/Tolima "jets", the Saqqara Bird, the Abydos helicopter, the Dendera light/lamp, the Baghdad Battery
4. 47:09 - Pure Imagination - The Nampa Figurine, the Multiregional Hypothesis, the Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca head, the Upshur Bell

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

• Episode 04 | Saddam's Stargate and Taskforce 20
• Episode 11 | Conspirasaurus Rex - Dino-Mite Theories About the Dinosaurs
• Out of Place Artifacts on Historic Mysteries
• OOPARTs on History Undusted
• The strange world of Out-of-place artifact (OOPArt)
• Archeological Fantasies website
• Pseudoarchaeology Research Archive (PARA) website
• The Ancient Stone Spheres Costa Rica on 360 On History
• Atlantis in America: Navigators of the Ancient World by Ivar Zapp and George Erikson 
• Diquis Spheres UNESCO listing
• Plain of Jars in Archaeology Magazine
• Plain of Jars Archaeological Research Project website
• Plain of Jars UNESCO listing
• In Search of... the Eltanin Antenna
• The Harp Sponge
• Baigong Pipes: The Strange Ancient "Pipes" Found In The Caves Of Mount Baigong
• The Baigong Pipes Skeptoid podcast episode
• The Starchild Skull -- Genetic Enigma or Human-Alien Hybrid? by Lloyd Pye
• The Starchild Project
• Starchild entry in the Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology 
• Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast
• Paluxy Man -- The Creationist Piltdown
• A Summary of the Taylor Site Evidence
• Footprints in Stone (Forbidden History II) video
• The Meister Print on Footprints in Stone
• Tripping Over a Trilobite: A Study of the Meister Tracks
• The Salzburg Cube on Legends & Chronicles 
• The Saltzburg Cube (sic) on the Museum of Unnatural Mystery
• Creation Evidence Museum website
• Alleged Iron Pot in Coal
• 10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts: The Grooved Spheres
• Klerksdorp Spheres: Strange Spheres Found In 3 Billion-Year-Old Rock
• Concretion on WIkipedia
• The 10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts: The Grooved Spheres on Archaeological Fantasies
• Exploration Mysteries: Yonaguni Monument on ExplorersWeb
• Japan's mysterious underwater 'city' on the BBC
• Was the legendary lost continent of Mu the 'real' Atlantis?
• Scientific American entry on Dorchester find, June 1852, "A Relic of a By-Gone Age"
• The Dorchester Vase on Genesis Park
• Dorchester Pot on Wikipedia
• The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
• Worlds Before Our Own by Brad Steiger
• Mysteries of the Unexplained: How Ordinary Men and Women Have Experienced the Strange, the Uncanny, and the Incredible Reader's Digest book
• Ediacaran Period on Britannica 
• If I Had a Hammer
• The London Hammer: It’s Real and It’s Fake on Naturalis Historia
• The Kingoodie Artifact on Stronghold Nation
• Those We Call Cavemen Were All That Remained Of Humanity After The Last Time We Destroyed Ourselves on Above Top Secret
• When Some 1920s Garbage Was Mistaken for an Ancient Artifact on Smithsonian
• Wedge of Aiud on RationalWiki
• The Mystery of Japan's Dogū Figures
• Ancient Dogu Figurines With Large Goggle-eyes Defy Scholarly Explanation on Ancient Origins
• Tolima "Fighter Jets" on Ancient Aliens Debunked
• The Saqqara Bird on Historic Wings
• The Saqqara Bird on Digging Up Ancient Aliens
• Submarines and the Hieroglyphics on Egypt Joy
• Helicopter Hieroglyphs? Debunking the “Mystery” of the Abydos Carvings on Ancient Origins.net
• Dendera lamp on RationalWiki
• The Dendera Light Bulb is a microdroplets fog made of sprayed water produced to achieve evaporative cooling inside the horizontal passage of the Great Pyramid of Khufu
• What the "Light Bulb" Relief Means at the Dendera Temple on The Archaeologist 
• Was the Baghdad Battery really a battery? on BBC Science Focus
• Awful Archaeology Ep. 6: The Baghdad Battery video
• The "Baghdad Battery" on the Iron Skeptic
• The Unique Figurine In Idaho That Still Baffles Archaeologists To This Day on Only In Your State
• The Nampa Figurine: 2-million-year-old Relic or Just a Hoax? on Ancient Origins 
• Multiregional Hypothesis: Human Evolutionary Theory on Thought Co.
• The Tan-Tan Venus 
• Tan-Tan: The oldest known human representation? on The Bradshaw Foundation - The Art of the Ice Age
• Calixtlahuaca's Head at the University of New Mexico
• The Calixtlahuaca Head at Ohio State Archaeological Outliers 
• 300 Million Years old Bell with Garuda found in Buckhannon, West Virginia
• The Mystery of the Bronze Bell encased within a Block of Coal on Metallic Man
• Genesis Park website

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