Did A Global Disaster Secretly Change Human History? - Graham Hancock

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Graham Hancock opens his discussion with a focus on global flood myths found in cultures worldwide, which often conflate phenomena like volcanic eruptions and earthquakes into narratives of a singular cataclysmic event. This interest leads him to examine the Younger Dryas (YD), an epoch occurring between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago at the end of the last Ice Age. Hancock describes how this period was characterized by a sudden climatic flip: after approximately 12,800 years of warming trends suggesting the exit from glaciation, global temperatures plunged overnight to levels comparable to the peak of the ice age. This abrupt shift coincided with massive sea-level rises and triggered the extinction of major Ice Age megafauna such as saber-tooth tigers, mastodons, and mammoths, a phenomenon that occurred within almost living human memory compared to older events like the Chicxulub impact 65 million years ago. The scientific explanation for these rapid changes centers on the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, which posits that Earth passed through the debris stream of a disintegrating comet around 12,800 years ago. Hancock supports this view by referencing evidence from over 60 credentialed scientists who argue against dismissal as fringe theory. The hypothesis suggests that while some large objects may have struck ice caps causing localized meltdowns and floods, the primary mechanism was a series of airbursts similar to the Tunguska event in Siberia in 1908. These events would not leave craters but instead flatten forests and decimate communities through intense heat and shockwaves. The debris stream is identified as the Taurid meteoroid stream, which contains objects ranging from hundreds of meters to kilometers in diameter that travel at high speeds across the globe due to Earth's rotation. Evidence for these catastrophic airbursts includes geological markers found at sites like Abu Hureyra in Syria and Gobekli Tepe, where layers containing iridium, nanodiamonds, shocked quartz, and melt glass—similar to trinitite from nuclear tests—are present. Hancock notes that while the Tunguska event flattened 2,000 square miles of uninhabited forest, a similar swarm hitting populated areas would have caused widespread destruction across North America, Europe, Asia, Antarctica, and South America within a span of about a year. The lack of massive craters is explained by the nature of airbursts destroying objects in the atmosphere before they could impact the ground directly, yet leaving behind distinct chemical signatures that confirm an extraterrestrial origin for these disasters. In addition to this historical analysis, Hancock touches upon modern efforts to resurrect extinct species through genetic engineering and AI technology, highlighting the work of Ben Lamm's Colossal Biosciences. He discusses plans to bring back woolly mammoths by splicing their DNA into Asian elephants, a project intended not only for conservation but also as an agricultural strategy where these animals could compact snow in higher latitudes to reflect sunlight and combat global warming. The conversation extends to the controversial idea of reviving the dodo bird, which Hancock interprets less as a practical ecological move than as a public relations tool designed to demonstrate the immense labor required to reverse extinction events caused by human environmental destruction. Ultimately, Hancock concludes that the Younger Dryas was not merely a natural fluctuation but an extinction-level event driven by cometary debris that fundamentally altered human history and ushered in the Holocene era. He emphasizes that despite opposition from some scientific circles who label these theories as lunacy, the evidence points to a deliberate cosmic intervention involving multiple airbursts rather than a single impactor. By connecting ancient myths of global floods with modern geological data regarding iridium anomalies and shocked quartz, Hancock argues for taking seriously the possibility that our current civilization emerged in the aftermath of a massive celestial bombardment that wiped out previous cultures and megafauna alike.

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we have 200 myths of a global flood that destroyed a prehistoric civilization found all around the world uh a global cataclysm these myths mix up a number of different effects they they they they mix up um bolts of fire from the sky they they they they mix up volcanoes suddenly erupting they they they include earthquakes and they include flood Global flood a flood that floods everything that is capable of of submerging lands and uh this is why I'm very interested in the epoch called the younger dras which unfolded between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago it's why we call our series ancient apocalypse it's going to say what's the apocalypse bit well the apocalypse bit is that the younger dras it's a it's a CL that that's a name given by climatologists to an episode of really weird climate that took place at the end of the last ice age they call it the younger dry after a species of Alpine flower that flourishes in extremely cold weather uh what happened to cut a long story short is that down to about 12,800 years ago give or take a century the because you can't be that precise with these definitions the uh the Earth was definitely emerging from the Ice Age it was it was getting warm um and and uh things were looking good uh it was it felt like that 100,000 years of Frozen world was coming to an end and then suddenly it flipped completely uh and and uh you have sudden sea level rise you have a Plunge in global temperature so that suddenly almost overnight it is as cold as it was as the absolute peak of the last ice age this happens suddenly and it happens right around the world worse of course in Northern and deep southern latitudes and much less vicious in its effects in tropical and equatorial zones but but a massive massive event this is the time precisely that window when all the big megap fora of the Ice Age go extinct they saber-tooth tigers mastadons mammoths when we were at White Sands by the way it was just amazing to see these Mammoth Footprints still in the sand there they're big they're very big these things have got a huge stride have you been following the work of Ben lamama colossal have you seen this no I haven't okay so they are bringing back Willie mammoths uh I've seen that yes I have Ben was on Ben was on the show I maybe talking about actually being involved with the project a little bit um just to tangent off before you tell us more about younger D the reason you know one of the reasons that they're looking at bringing them back that they can they think that by putting them in the higher latitudes these animals will be able to compact down the snow and reflect back more sun interesting so they'll be able to use a extinct species to help combat modern global warming that's a very fancy idea it's amaz it's the they're Farmers they farm animals in a way that they will eat seeds from here and poop them over there which will help to spread things around so the other two I asked him what else are you working on so he's got this the way they're doing it it's the Asian elephant so they've taken um all of these Frozen samples of uh genetic material they're then using AI to splice in the gaps so there will be at some point there will be an Asian elephant that giv birth to a wly mammoth when they're ready because it's the closest genetic relative that they can get but the other one and this is so cool I I I really L this idea from Ben he said that I was what what else do you want to bring back like you know saber-tooth tiger that's pretty cool uh and he said dodo bird I'm like I mean it's a meme why would you bring back the it's useless Doo precisely why would you do that and he said well it was because it was the reason that it was dead was because of environmental destruction so he's using the all of the effort being very public about the effort that they have to go to in order to bring this bird back to say see how much we had to do see the labor that we had to jump through MH in order to be able to bring back this thing that we could have just avoided destroying its habitat in the first place so it's like a PR bird so it may end up being actually way more useful uh than you ever thought but kind of uh only as a public relations tool yeah uh but I thought that was uh that was really cool it is very cool yeah colossal colossal is awesome people should go and check them out it would be nice to see how it all ends up is it's a real thing it's going to happen it's happening I mean the the Asian elephant thing they're ready to pull a pin on it I think it'll happen within the next few years fascinating it's awesome so younger dras yeah so the the younger the younger drers within almost the living memory of the human species you know we know that there have been huge cataclysms on the earth before we the best known example is the chicks gloop crater in in deeply buried off the Gulf of Mexico the the the so-called KT dinosaurs extinct 65 or 66 million years ago there've been a number of events like that caused by Cosmic impacts from by objects from I'm sure that you've looked at this as well but the uh I I really loved learning about the fact that that uh asteroid had it of hit in a slightly different area of the Earth it wasn't to do with even the impact it was to do with the toxic dust that was kicked up from some particular type of Rock that's very deep down underneath that and you're talking about seconds later yeah that the entire future of the earth maybe 10 seconds later cuz these things are traveling at tens of thousands of miles we're spinning pretty quick as well yeah and it would have been completely it was about as bad of a place for the dinosaurs pretty good for us uh that it could have hit and I I always I always think about that when you think about contingency and convergence and thin chance interesting interesting maybe the dinosaurs annoyed the universe perhap they weren't they weren't tracking their procession sufficiently well they didn't know their wobble yeah uh anyway sorry Young D I keep distracting yeah it's not a distraction it's it's it's it's relevant the point is that that there have been a number of extinction level events uh on our planet uh and what is not being properly taken into account is that although it was very recent in geological terms just 12,800 years ago the younger D was also an extinction level event and it led to the extinction as I said of all the great meapa uh of the Ice Age and it ushered in the hollene the the the Modern Age that we that we live in today um the team who are working on what is called the younger dras impact hypothesis deserve to be taken seriously their opponents in science try to paint them as some sort of Lunatic Fringe but actually we're dealing with a number more than 60 highly credential scientists who are just following the evidence where it leads them and what the evidence leads them to uh and I've I've given all the data on this in in my books particularly in magicians of the gods that was published in 2015 what the evidence leads to is the conclusion that the earth 12,800 years ago passed through the debris stream of a disintegrating Comet all comets disintegrate sooner or later um and uh for those who would wish to see an example of this it's Jupiter uh in it it's the it's the Shoemaker Levy 9 hitting hitting Jupiter uh and breaking up into 21 fragments before it did so um comets break up into multiple fragments every single meteor shower that we see and we pass through dozens of them every year every single one of those is the debris stream of a disintegrated Comet that's what they all are every single shooting star is bit of a comet that we're that we're looking at sometimes bigger yeah sometimes those bits are really large uh sometimes they can be kilometers in diameter and what is called the torid meteor stream because it appears to emanate in our time from the constellation of tus of course it's not coming from the constellation of Taurus it's a visual effect that bit of the sky that the constellation of Taurus is in the torid the torid meteor stream um is full of large and dangerous objects uh and it's also full of smaller objects when I say smaller they might be 100 or 200 meters in diameter instead of 2 or 3 kilometers in diameter um the view of the of the Comet research group who are behind the younger dras impact hypothesis is that 12,800 years ago the earth entered a swarm of cometary De debris that swarm did include some large objects they reckon that's why the North American ice cap went into a sudden meltdown 1200 ,800 years ago unleashing floods on an enormous scale and raising sea levels very oddly at a time when global temperatures were sinking normally you get sea level rise when global temperatures are rising but they they plunged during the younger dries and yet you have sea level rise they think that that some large objects hit the North American ice cap and some hit the northern European multiple not single large impact no no but but they do think that there were some large objects that hit the ice caps but they think primarily what it was was Air Bursts of objects that were about 100 to 200 Metter in diameter um uh air Air Bursts like the tunguska event in 198 June the 30th 198 nobody disputes that that was a bit of a comet it almost certainly was a comet that fell out of the torid meteor stream because that is the peak of What's called the beta TDS uh in precisely 30th of June um and and um it didn't leave any crater because it blew up in the sky the Earth's atmosphere destroyed it in the sky but that air burst uh flattened the rough calculation is 2,000 square miles of Siberian Forest uh and when investigators went into the area uh a few years later they just found the whole Forest flattened over an enormous area uh by this by this air burst it was a cataclysmic air burst now if you take that fortunately it was an uninhabited area of Siberia but if you take that overp population areas and you multiply it by 100 it's not just one air burst it's 100 air burst and as you say the Earth is spinning pretty fast it's rotating at a th000 miles hour at the Equator so you can see how the trajectory of these bits coming in would actually spatter the Earth across a huge range of the Earth's circumference um and and the evidence from for for the younger dras impact is that these air busts were taking place from as far west as the west coast of North America and as far east as Syria as far south as Antarctica and southern Chile as far north as Belgium so this this was a very large event um and the fact that no massive craters have been found yet is partly explained by the sense that the larger objects hit the North American ice cap and partly explained by the fact that airbursts don't leave craters but they do decimate communities like Abu hrera in Syria uh which um is within 150 miles of the extraordinary site of gobec liepe and which was wiped out 12,800 years ago Abu Herrera was it was completely flattened by something uh you mean by flattened I I mean that everybody there was killed and that the whole place was destroyed it was rapidly reoccupied within two or 3 years it was reoccupied and repopulated but something really bad happened there and the traces on the ground the Iridium the Nano Diamonds the shocked quartz uh the melt glass like trinitite all of the these things speak to precisely what the comet research group thinks went happened that this was that this was an air burst of an object of roughly tunguska size that happened happened to happen over an ancient settlement over the span of about a year I tried pretty much every Green strink that I could trying to work out which one was best and I came across ag1 and have stuck with it for over three years because it's the best I know that you might be skeptical about taking anything that replaces food this isn't supposed to replace food it's just foundational nutrition it's insurance for the days when you don't actually 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