This is a produced “show”, masquerading as real. The Discovery channel and the Learning Channel used to provide interesting, mostly educational material. The people in the shows were readily identifiable as real people, with simple searches.
Then, everything changed. “Ancient Aliens”, became a hit, and the want to actually provide real documentary, and/or educational programming, was tossed out with proverbial baby. The owners/operators of those channels decided that catering to conspiracy theory rabbit hole divers, would make them more advertising money than programs that are based on actual, provable, vetted science, and history.
Our country has come to want to believe in the most ridiculous, superstitious, illogical, unproven, and largely made up lies and bullsh*t. That has permeated into our politics. Programs like this one, Ancient Aliens, Strange Evidence, and the like, are now watched by those true believers, who think these programs are actually telling them some real and truthful. NO, these shows are based on “alternative facts” and conspiracy theory lovers.
Even the people that try to make excuses for shows like this, like this site, even admit that scenes are likely recreated, some “evidence” is not actually located on the site that the show clearly promotes as being there. This is disingenuous BS too, on this site. If a reenactment is used, then is NEES to be identified as such. Otherwise its’ a lie to present it as real and happening as it is being recorded.
And this site then uses a “friend” of the ranches owner. This friend is a purveyor of the need to believe, and has written books to promote such nonsense. This site chooses that guy? That guy, to provide some truth? Yeah, ok. He describes some very nondescript event that has the production crew oh so rattled that they “hid” in their cars, then “threatened to quit”. Note that there is absolutely NO details as to what supposedly happened. The who spiel reads like more lies and BS designed to promote the show even more.
I agree with the things you point out. There is no “box” in the flooded cave. It’s a bunch of logs tied together, seemingly filled with rocks. And the owner’s “genius” idea is to drop chains through a hole, and then pull those chains out through the hole as his son pulls those chains out through that pool opening to the cave. OH really? If his son can so easily take the chains from the “box” and drag them out to the pool, so that they can then “drag the box” out, then why the hell did they bother to drill that hole? Yeah, the “plan” was that they needed that hole so that they could get those chains down there. Oh yeah, why? Cause, those chains can be pulled out to the pool opening, but those same chains couldn’t be dragged to the “box” through that same pool? LOL! Absolute BS. The whole, “need to drill a hole”, episode was created to create more drama and suspense, fooling the true believers that this sh*t is real.
And then the gallium metal. The supposed archaeologist, or whatever he claims to be, is so full of crap. Gallium was discovered in 1875, but it existed WELL BEFORE it was discovered. Gallium is an element you idiot. It was not created in 1875. The supposed “scientist” did a whole episode about that mysterious metal inside those rocks, because he was so perplexed and confused by that metal. Yeah, right. A simple 1 minute internet search would have informed that bad actor of what he was likely dealing with. He uses supposed high tech equipment, and runs tests, but can’t really figure out what that material is, well, until he concludes it is gallium. He claims that the Aztecs must have created gallium 300 years before it was “discovered”. But, how can the Aztecs have “made” gallium before it was “discovered”? UH DUH! Oxygen existed weeeeelllll before we humans actual “discovered” it, and what it is. Same goes for the ELEMENT Gallium.
The only part is that purified gallium, which is what he was likely playing around with, requires an acid in order to extract it from it’s raw form. Humans, yes even the Aztecs, knew of and had acids. Still, the claim that the Aztecs drilled those rocks and put purified gallium in them is creative, I will admit. It makes for very interesting production value…for a FICTIONAL story, not for a program that claims to be a documentary, actually recording things as they happen, with no scripting or staging, or bullsh*t and lies.
Programs like that should be required to disclose what they really are, so that the public isn’t fooled into believing all of the crazed conspiracy theory BS that has become widespread. Large numbers of our society have chosen modern mysticism to believe in as being reality. The number of willful stupid has been increasing at a dangerous rate over the past decade. Networks and show like this are cashing in on that stupidity, and at the same time giving more fuel to feed the insanity fire.
