The Why Files: Operation Podcast - 590: When Earth's Shield Fails the Dead Will Rise | The Plasma Apocalypse (STRIPPED)

Episode Date: April 23, 2025

Our planet's magnetic shield is deteriorating rapidly, creating a dangerous vulnerability to solar storms of unprecedented power. Throughout history, events like the 1921 New York Railroad incident and the 1859 Carrington Event wreaked havoc on early technology. Cultures across continents left warnings through winter solstice rituals and megalithic structures designed not for worship but as sophisticated energy channeling systems during cosmic upheavals. Their stone warnings remain while our understanding fades. Military documents like CONPLAN 8888 reveal government preparations for phenomena beyond power outages. The magnetic north pole races toward Siberia at increasing speed, while the South Atlantic Anomaly grows larger each year. The approaching plasma event threatens to do more than disable our technology—it will transform reality in ways our ancestors deeply feared.

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our shield for billions of years stopping deadly radiation and keeping our planet survivable but that shield isn't perfect and sometimes it fails scientists recently found proof inside an old stalagmite from a cave in China. Earth's magnetic field can flip, not slowly over thousands of years, fast, sometimes in just 100 years. The last big flip happened 780,000 years ago, and we're overdue for a big one. But smaller shifts, they happen much more often. When the field flips, the shield weakens to about 10% strength. When that happens, our defenses fail quickly. Solar radiation hits the surface. Plasma from the Sun floods the atmosphere. Our magnetic field is

weakening right now. It's already 10% weaker since the 1800s. Over the South Atlantic, satellites have been disabled and the North Magnetic Pole is moving 34 miles a year toward Siberia, and moving faster every year. Something is happening. Our ancestors have legends about the last magnetic flip and danger from the sun. The stories are terrifying. They knew this was a cycle. They left warnings for future generations carved in stone.

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See site for details. Solar weather can be calm or chaotic. It's a cycle. The Earth's magnetic field is stable, then it flips. It's also a cycle. The danger isn't so much the flip of the poles, it's the time in between. When the poles flip, the Earth's magnetic field becomes twisted and tangled and very weak. That leaves us vulnerable to solar weather. In 1921, a big solar storm hit Earth.

Telegraph stations caught fire, railroad equipment melted, the sky turned deep red as far south as Texas. And that happened with our magnetic shield at full strength. Imagine that same storm hitting today with our weakened field. The damage would be huge.

Plasma could fry every electronic device on Earth. Phones, TVs, computers, the entire Internet, gone. Communities would be cut off. Power grids would fail. Modern life then breaks down in minutes. Think about New York City, Chicago, Beijing, in total darkness for weeks. Chaos is an understatement.

That was 1921. September 1859 was worse. The Carrington event. Telegraph operators got shocked from their own machines. Sparks flew everywhere. Paper caught fire. The northern lights moved so far south, they were seen in Cuba. People woke up at 2 a.m. and birds started singing.

They thought it was morning. The sky was bright enough to read a newspaper outside. Frederick Drew was in Kashmir, India. He wrote in his journal, quote, the whole northern hemisphere was as light as though the sun was beginning to rise. He described the sky, all crimson, a most vivid blood red color. Drew wasn't a scientist. He just wrote what he saw. Ships at sea were lost. Compasses spun wildly, useless. Sailors saw the ocean glow a strange blue-green light. This wasn't sunlight. It wasn't the ocean. It was plasma, pure energy from space, slipping through our weak magnetic shield. Scientists found proof of an even bigger event, 1770. Captain James Cook saw it near Indonesia. Chinese astronomers recorded

a massive sunspot twice the size of any seen before. Auroras lasted nine straight days. Ancient myths talk about this. In Norse legend Ragnarok, the sky opens, fire giants pour through. The Hopi, Maya, and other native people have similar stories of fire raining from the sky. These legends come from different cultures, different continents, but they all describe the same thing. The sky turns to fire, strange things appear,

reality breaks down. Our ancestors weren't surprised by these events. They had warning systems, more advanced than we thought. Systems may be still working today. They knew the signs and carved them into stone, and we're seeing those signs right now. The ancients were prepared. They built monuments that we thought were for worship, but they were actually for protection. This message is sponsored by Greenlight. When I was growing up, financial literacy meant your parents yelling, money doesn't grow on trees.

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Look at winter solstice traditions. Almost every major culture has one. They all involve keeping a flame burning through the darkest days. The Yule log, the festival of lights, the Christmas candle. These weren't just celebrations. They were ancient protection rituals. Ancient Egyptians celebrated the demon days, a five-day festival during the darkest time of year. They believed this is when the dark spirits could enter our world. Their protection? Keep flames burning constantly.

Roman Saturnalia, Celtic winter solstice, Chinese Dongzhi festival, all featured continuous flames, light during the darkest days. The Persian Shabayalda festival celebrated light over darkness by keeping candles burning all night long. And here's what's interesting. These rituals match periods of high solar activity and weakened magnetic fields.

Ice core samples show proof of major solar events that line up with the timing of these ancient festivals. These cultures had no contact. If they all share the same fear, obsessed with keeping flames burning, and at the exact same time of year. They remembered something we forgot, something ancient, something dangerous. The Department of Defense knows what's coming. They have plans for the aftermath. The plasma hits, electronics stop, air pressure drops, people bleed from their ears, from their nose, and then creatures appear. The government calls them phanazoids, beings from another dimension.

They slip through when reality weakens. They look like microscopic life blown up to a massive size. Think tardigrade the size of a building. This isn't science fiction. The DoD has ConPlan 8888. It details different scenarios. When the magnetic field collapses, they expect temporary reanimation

of recently deceased organic matter. In other words, zombies. The military has a guide on how to survive a zombie apocalypse, and most people think it's a joke. But the first line of the program, quote, this plan was not actually designed as a joke. Former Marine Sergeant Shim Spark says he was part of a classified exercise in 2009, codenamed Broken Mirror. It simulated a massive solar flare, triggering electromagnetic anomalies worldwide. Sparks says his unit trained to contain biological entities of unknown origin, entities appearing during the event. A declassified CIA document from 1976 is titled

Electromagnetic Effects on Human Tissue. It discusses plasma's strange properties. The report says plasma can show almost intelligent behavior under certain conditions and appear to respond to consciousness. Three pages are still classified. The Russians studied this since the 1950s. Their name for phanazoids? Plasma ghosts. Soviet scientists believed these things were always here, but only visible

during geomagnetic events. Many governments fear that if plasma makes it to the surface, it will look for organic vessels. And Earth has millions of organic vessels capable of using electricity all over the world. They're called human corpses. The ancient Egyptians seem to understand this energy. Researchers at Cairo University found that ancient Egyptian mummies have high levels of conductive metals, copper, gold, special salts. These materials form pathways through the bodies. This wasn't just symbolism, this was circuitry. So many governments of the world, including our own, fear that our weakening shield means the next storm won't just turn off the lights, it could turn on the dead.

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The ancients knew about plasma. They didn't just light candles, they built structures, massive structures, to channel the energy or maybe contain it. The Nazca Lines in Peru, massive drawings on the ground, you can only see them from high in the air. Some scientists think these patterns might be landing strips to attract plasma energy, channel it during geomagnetic events. The desert floor there conducts electricity well, an ideal material for plasma interaction. Giant stone structures like Stonehenge, the pyramids,

sites across South America, they all share key electrical properties. They sit on limestone bedrock. Limestone conducts electricity. Many of these structures contain quartz. Quartz creates electrical charges under pressure. Their positions around the globe create a vast network, almost like a planetary circuit. After the Apollo missions ended, we pulled our space programs back. So why in the past few years is there sudden urgency to go to deep space?

It makes sense if you're worried about the plasma apocalypse. They're not trying to reach other planets, they're trying to escape this one. We're already seeing the warning signs, strange sounds in the sky, like massive sheets of ice cracking. People call them sky trumpets or atmospheric groans, documented in over 40 countries. They happen most often in areas with unusual geomagnetic activity. The magnetic pole races towards Siberia, faster than ever recorded. The South Atlantic anomaly is growing larger.

Our electrical grid is weaker than ever. And the sun? It's entering a period of high activity. The storm is coming, and we are not prepared. We built our world on technology. That technology makes us feel powerful, but it's actually made us more vulnerable. It's just a matter of time before technology betrays us. And let's see how long our great civilization lasts

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The plasma apocalypse is something that really scares me. But phantazoid zombies, ancient warnings carved in stone. Let's separate facts from the fiction. Earth's magnetic field is weakening. The North Magnetic Pole is shifting faster than before. That's confirmed. Scientists measure it. Since the 1800s, the field's strength dropped about 10%.

The European Space Agency's swarm satellites track these changes. It's real. The South Atlantic Anomaly is real. It fluct real. The South Atlantic anomaly is real. It fluctuates, but it's steadily growing larger. It's not just causing problems with satellites either. It's affecting X-ray equipment on the surface. The big solar storms? Those are real too. The Carrington event in 1859 happened. Telegraph systems failed. Operators got electrocuted. Auroras were seen near the equator. That's documented history. The 1921 storm? Also real. Caused fires everywhere. Disrupted communication. Could a storm like Carrington hit us today? Yes. Solar scientists

all agree. NASA, NOAA, FEMA, they all know it's possible. A big coronal mass ejection or CME aimed at Earth could knock out power grids for weeks, maybe months. Our modern world depends on electricity. Losing it would be bad, very bad. And this is a real worry. But what about the other stuff? Interdimensional beings, phanazoids. There's no scientific proof for any of that. ConP888 that's a real military document but it was a training exercise the

military uses unrealistic scenarios for training all the time so they don't get mistaken for actual plans the document says it uses fictional zombies as a teaching tool not because the pentagon expects zombies allegedly but it's a pretty zombies, allegedly. But it's a pretty interesting document and really detailed. It's kind of suspicious, actually, so we're going to do a whole episode on that. Ancient solstice festivals, they do share themes, light, fire, burning continuously, but experts usually link this to seasons, shorter days, colder weather, makes sense to focus on fire and light there's no direct proof connecting these festivals specifically to plasma events or magnetic field shifts it's an interesting

idea but just an idea so far but this threat is real a major solar storm hitting a weakened magnetic field that could cause blackouts and communication failures for a long time. We need to prepare and I'm worried we're moving too slowly. We see ourselves as masters of this planet. We split the atom, mapped our DNA, connected every corner of the world. Yet one solar hiccup could end it all. Our ancestors understood their place in this cosmic arrangement. They didn't try to conquer nature.

They respected its cycles, built their lives around its rhythms, watched for its warnings. We've lost that humility. The ancients left us instructions for survival. We would be wise to learn from them. If we don't and a major plasma storm hits, the sun will deliver a cruel irony. A planet covered with warnings carved in stone, but nobody alive to read them. Thanks for listening or watching The Y-File Stripped, where I try to get right to the point,

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