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Back in around 1880 or so some hillbillies stumbled into a spooky cave complete with Lovecraftian obelisks made of a material unknown to man.  https://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radoz.html quote:One red and gold November day, thirty-three years ago, three Missouri "hill billies" followed their yelping "hound-dog" up a deep mountain canyon in Barry County, Missouri. They were on the trail of a wildcat. When the canyon came to an end, blocked by the face of a rocky cliff, the cat disappeared in the black mouth of an unsuspected cave. The hound followed, the hunters waiting outside, their rifles ready. Fifteen minutes later the bay of the dog was heard on the top of the cliff. Plainly the big hole ran clear through the mountain. The hound was whistled down and sent through a second time. Then the four hunters prepared to explore the cavern on their own account.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:That's called pareidolia, or the human tendency to see patterns where none actually exist, like how people see Jesus in a piece of toast and that kind of thing. Or your body playing tricks and sending your mind garbage data so you think some lights are moving or there's a noise or whatever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autokinetic_effect
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cryptologists: "no person could walk like bigfoot!" slovenly slouching teenage boys: 
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some dude: "yeah these BBQs are gonna be sick!" *resumes grinding paint off of 55 gallon drums with a angle grinder* people on the other side of town: "OH MY GOD THESE MYSTERY NOISES AREN'T STOPPING! WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENT HIDING FROM US?!?"
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It's not exactly a podcast but this place has streams of old Art Bell-period Coast to Coast AM episodes: http://www.u7radio.org/
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"but how could they have made straight lines?!?!? the ancients could have never figured out how to stretch out a rope and then use the shadow as a guide!" Similarly one thing I've run into a couple times from Christian fundies as a "ATHEISTS = DESTROYED!" argument involves tongs for metalworking. Variously the argument or "idea exercise" (the one I encountered was "make HMS Victory entirely from scratch") all leads to the proposal that "you can't work metal to make blacksmith tongs without first having tongs", so therefore god exists. However what little information exists on pre-colonial blacksmithing in Africa provides an example otherwise, that wooden tongs were used. Using sticks is acceptable enough for basic working of copper or iron blooms (as they burn up you can just get more sticks) until you can work it to the point where you can put metal tips on the ends of your wooden tongs or stretch your iron ingot out enough that you can hold the cooler side with them. IIRC there's a South African movie from the late 1930s that shows some actual Zulu blacksmiths in part of a "village life" scene and one of the smiths is using some wooden tweezers to hold a ingot while he hammers it out on a rock.
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IIRC the lost cosmonaut recordings all come from two Italian brothers as well.
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