Megalithic Marvels - America's Strangest Ancient Rock Art Revealed

Episode Date: March 12, 2026

In this episode, we explore some of America’s strangest ancient rock art. From strange humanoid figures to abstract symbols and massive panels carved into cliff faces, these petroglyphs raise fascinating questions about the beliefs, stories, and experiences of those who made them. Who and what do these symbols represent?JOIN ME ON A 2026 TOUR

We're going to travel across the U.S. to look at some of the strangest petroglyphs in North America. And some of this ancient rock art may shock you by what they are depicting. But before we begin our journey, just a quick reminder to please like this video. Subscribe to my channel from wherever you are watching. And please leave me a five-star review if you are watching on Spotify. That really, really helps me out. Now when we look at this ancient rock art that's found across North America, especially some of the rock art or the petroglyphs that are associated with the Anasazi of the Utah Four Corners area,

some of these are my favorite. There's a panel called the newspaper rock petroglyphs in Utah. And when you see these photos as you're seeing now, they are strange. There's strange spiral vortexes, what looks like portals, portals, stargates, what appears to possibly be entities that came through these portals. We not only see animals, but we see what looks like humanoids, chimeras, which is animal, human hybrids, even horned giants, and six toad footprints. Now, a lot of this rock art is guesstimated to date from at least 1,000 BC, up to 1,300 AD,

although I think it might be even a lot older. But this is around the same time, this mysterious tribe known as the Anasazi who lived in the Four Corners area seemingly disappeared, about 1,000 BC to 1,300 AD. Now, as I've mentioned in a previous episode or two, there was a late researcher and author and filmmaker named Tom Horn who visited these Four Corners sites and wrote a book and did a film about the mysterious vanishing. of the Anasazi. And I found it very interesting how Horn documented how the University of Southeastern Colorado was excavating years ago at a site called the San Canyon Pueblo archaeological site. And they were excavating an Anasazi community that appeared to have been suddenly attacked. And whatever happened to them doesn't compare to any other kind of tribal war that they had ever excavated before.

meaning that these people and the bones and what they found, they were literally appeared to be mangled and ripped to shreds all over the site. They'd never seen anything like it. They even found parts of bodies and skeletons from this site that had been transported over 200 miles away. So it was really insane. Now, the Anasazi were smaller people that stood about five feet tall, yet although most of the bodies were in shreds,

guess what these archaeologists also unearthed? Two very large, complete, seven plus foot long skeletons at this site. So almost all of the five foot onasazi bodies were ripped as shreds, yet the only two complete bodies were seven plus foot tall skeletons. And all of this was documented on the university's website at the time. So could this possibly give us clues at what might have happened to the Anasazi? Is it possible that a much larger enemy tribe measuring seven plus feet tall with maybe six digits as

the petroglyphs in the area depict, was this some kind of hybrid Nephilim tribe that was taking dominion in the desert southwest? And is this why the Anasazi went through the pain staking process of building these incredible cliff dwellings way up in the high sheer cliffs when they very easily could have built them just on the valley floor below. Why were they trying to hide in the cliffs? And also consider joining me on one of my 2006 tours. We are going to Peru and Bolivia this September, ancient Turkey in October. And then we're going to end the year. in Egypt in the first part of December. And these are going to be some of the best tours that I've ever led. And each of these tours includes airport pickup and drop off, all transportation and lodging

during the tour, at least two meals per day, site tickets, and English speaking guides. But most importantly of all, not only will we have the time of our lives hanging out and having fun, but you will learn the hidden history of these ancient civilizations. as we go in search of evidence of lost technology, and as we go to see sites and places that most tourists would miss. Visit megalithicmarvels.com slash tours for more info or click the link in the show notes below to save your spot today. So Utah probably has some of the best petroglyphs in the United States, if not the world.

Another great gallery is called Utah's Great Gallery. And these are literally life-sized depictions. that are estimated to be at least 4,000 years old. Again, they're known as Utah's Great Gallery, one of the most impressive of also what's known the Barrier Canyon rock art panels. And you can see from these photos, these are anthropomorphic figures

that arise literally as much as seven feet tall. And in this one photo amongst these strange entities or hybrids is a guy that's even like a foot or two above the rest. Who in the world was this? Or should I say, what in the world was this? Now, in another spot on this Bear Your Canyon panel is a very strange scene. Notice what looks like some kind of ancient insectoid figurine that appears to be shooting something from its hands. And then right below this insectoid figure is another strange scene that features two hovering entities that seem to be inserting something, what do you think is happening here?

My mind goes to so many places. Is this depicting some kind of genetic experiment on a cellular level? Are they possibly growing chimeras in an artificial womb? Okay, and staying in Utah again, we're going to look at one more petroglyph, which might be my most, favorite petroglyph on the planet and I refer to this petroglyph as Utah's six-fingered Bigfoot. This is in an area known as the Uintah Basin and it's amongst petroglyphs known as the dry fork petroglyphs that depict varying scenes of chaos and again we see these anthropomorphic figurines that are just very intensely decorated. They've got horned head,

Many of these standing entities are holding severed heads. And when you look closely at the faces of the heads, they've got trails of tears flowing down their faces. So just very intense. The most fantastic of all these figurines, again, is what's known as the six-fingered bigfoot for obvious reasons. Now, when we look close at this figurine, we see several strange anomalies.

anomalies. One look at his face and head. Now, is he wearing an elaborate headdress or is this depicting some kind of elongated skull with horns coming off of it? I'd love to actually know what you think about that. Leave me a comment. Is it a headdress or is it an elongated skull with horns? And then when we look at his left hand, it's featuring six fingers very clearly. And I believe the other hand as well, but unfortunately it was defaced or Dan. imaged. So were the ancient artists here painting or depicting what they heard about in their ancient legends or even what they saw with their own eyes in their day? And who actually created this artwork? Do you think it was humans or was it actually ancient entities or hybrids creating this ancient

petroglyphs? And I should state that I don't believe all petroglyphs are equal. I believe some petroglyphs were made by ancient Native Americans, but I believe some petroglyphs are even far older and could have been made by ancient entities that predated the Native Americans. Therefore, might some of these petroglyphs like this six-fingered Bigfoot be depicting a hybrid demigod from the old world that descended into the American Southwest in ages past? Again, I'd love to know what you think. Okay, now let's travel to Northern California where I want to tell you about some incredible yet very little-known petroglyphs,

which I refer to as the Donner Pass petroglyphs. Now, if you're familiar with Northern California, Highway 80 travels through Donner Pass just above Lake Tahoe. Now, Donner Pass is named after the Donner Party, this infamous group of pioneers who were traveling to California by wagon train in the winter of 1846. Now, if you're familiar with this unfortunate story, the Donner Party, they get snowed in on Donner Pass,

and they begin to freeze. They begin to get sick and die. They begin to starve, and they have to resort to cannibalism in order to survive. Now, as interesting and old as this story is, there is something far more ancient and interesting to me in this very exact same area. In fact, the Donner Party may have literally passed by these petroglyphs

without even knowing they were there in the winter. I assume they would have been covered by snow and ice. But right here at Donner Pass can be found over 200 ancient petroglyphs, geometric shapes etched into the white granite. Now, archaeologists estimate these petroglyphs could be as old as 4,000 years old. Again, I believe they're probably even older. The archaeologists pretty much admit they really don't know who made these. Some of them give credit to a mysterious martis culture,

who they say were previous ancestors of the Washoe natives. Yet these martis disappear from history, kind of like the Anasazi, and no one absolutely knows where they went or why. Being over 4,000 years old, these petroglyphs are very ancient and they're very weathered. In fact, I was shocked when I saw them this last time in 2025, they were way more faded than the first time I saw them around 2013. When I compare the photos I took in 2013 to the footage I captured here last year in 2025. So sadly, this ancient art is going to eventually disappear. appear in my opinion with the sun baking on it with every winter the ice and the snow pouring over it

with rocks falling over and scraping it and more and more people learning about them and walking on them and just so you know I was very careful not to walk on any petroglyph but I got close enough to get some good photos in video footage here I'm actually surprised that the state of California hasn't tried to at least rope off this one area where these petroglyphs are and even cover it with some kind of resin if that was possible, some kind of clear coat to protect them if that's possible. You'd think with all the technology we have, it would be, but sadly they probably won't be around forever. So I'm glad I got this footage for you to enjoy. But did you know that there were petroglyphs like this in Northern California?

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