Ancient tablets in Hebrew.

Stone chambers linked to Druids.

Inscribed artifacts pulled from real burial mounds.

For 200 years, whispers have claimed Celts or Phoenicians made it to ancient America—and helped build the mounds.

Most scoff.

Let’s take a careful look.

What’s real. What’s fake. And what still doesn’t add up. Americans in the 1800’s were obsessed with “Old World” contact theories.

Newspapers, Smithsonian reports, and amateur archaeologists claimed:

• Stone chambers = Druidic
• Mounds = European
• Tablets = Hebrew, Greek, Phoenician

It wasn’t just fantasy.

There were real artifacts—many now lost or dismissed.

The big question: Were they faked, misread, or something else?

In the 1800s, settlers opened ancient mounds across the Ohio Valley—
And claimed they found giants:

skeletons over 7 feet tall, buried with copper, pearls, and pipes.

But what archaeologists uncovered

Even more fascinating than the folklore.

Let’s talk about the Adena Tall Ones🧵 The Adena culture (1000–200 BC) built hundreds of conical burial mounds across the Midwest and Upper South.

In the oldest and most central tombs, archaeologists noticed a pattern:

• Exceptionally tall individuals
• Elaborate grave goods
• Central placement within the mound

These weren’t ordinary burials.

They were ceremonial—and intentional.

It was massive.
Unforgiving.
Alive.

The Great Black Swamp stretched over a million acres—

flooded armies,
drowned settlers,
and defied civilization.

Settlers cursed it. Surveyors feared it.

Then we drained it—and buried what we didn’t understand.

Now? The land is remembering—through floods, algae blooms, and runoff.

This is the buried story of the Great Black Swamp: Formed after the last Ice Age, the Black Swamp was the legacy of glacial Lake Maumee, a prehistoric lake that once filled the region.

As it drained, it left behind a flat basin of clay and muck.

Rain had nowhere to go.

So a wetland formed—120 miles long, 40 miles wide.

They called it “The Everglades of the North.”

Half a million acres of wild, untamable swamp.

So vast it could swallow armies.
So rich it fed cities.
So haunting it sparked legends.
And then we destroyed it.

Let me tell you the story of the Grand Kankakee Marsh. 🧵 Before we drained it, the Grand Kankakee Marsh stretched across 500,000+ acres of Indiana and Illinois.

It was a labyrinth of bayous, lakes, bogs, and tall grasses—home to bison, wolves, black bears, and millions of migratory birds.

It was the largest inland wetland on the continent.

There’s a 1,348-foot-long serpent carved into the earth in Ohio.

It tracks the sun.

It coils with the moon.

It sits on a 5-mile-wide impact crater.

And it might be older than the pyramids.

Why aren’t we talking more about this 🧵 Serpent Mound = the largest effigy mound on Earth.

It’s longer than 4 football fields.

Built with dirt. By hand. No machines.

And it’s not random. It:

• Aligns with the summer solstice
• Tracks lunar standstills (18.6-year cycle)
• Ends in a perfect spiral

This is advanced geometry in ancient soil.

Hamilton County, Indiana is one of the richest counties in America.

Carmel is its crown jewel—clean, expanding, unstoppable.

But beneath the growth is a story no one tells.

Ancient Native mounds once stood here.
Now they’re gone.
Paved over. Looted. Erased.

And the silence?
That’s not an accident. Long before suburbs, this land held sacred earthworks — built by Indigenous cultures 1,500+ years ago.

Mounds. Ceremonial centers. Burial sites.

In the 1800s, settlers mapped them across Noblesville, Carmel, Fishers, and Westfield.

Now? Almost all are gone.

The Giant Figures Carved Into the Desert Floor—Only Visible from the Sky

They were never meant to be seen from ground level.
And for over 1,000 years, no one did.

Then in 1931, a pilot flew over the California desert—and saw something impossible.
Massive human shapes etched into the earth.

This is the story of the Blythe Intaglios. 🧵 Near the Colorado River, in the harsh open desert north of Blythe, CA, six enormous geoglyphs stretch across the gravel.

•A human figure over 165 feet long

•A quadruped, likely a mountain lion or coyote

•Spirals, lines, and another set of humanoid forms

They were carved by scraping away the dark desert crust to reveal pale soil beneath—no tools, no machines, just precision and ritual.

Troyville Mounds: The Lost Pyramid City of Louisiana

Before New Orleans, before the French, before even the Mississippians… there was Troyville—a lost civilization in Louisiana.

It had a 7-story pyramid mound, possibly the tallest ever built in North America.

So why did we destroy it? And what was lost? 🧵👇 The Troyville Earthworks (400–700 AD) once stood in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana.

It was a massive village site with nine mounds, the largest towering 82 feet—as tall as an 8-story building.

But this wasn’t just any mound… it was something never seen before.

The Spring Equinox & The Mississippians: A Forgotten Science?

On March 19-20, 2025, the sun will rise in perfect balance—the Spring Equinox.

To most, it’s just a seasonal shift.

But to the Mississippians, it was a cosmic event encoded into their most sacred earthworks—a cycle of power, prophecy, and balance.

Let’s break it down. 🧵👇 Cahokia (IL): The Solar City & Its Wooden Calendar

•Cahokia wasn’t just a city—it was the largest pre-Columbian metropolis north of Mexico, home to over 20,000 people at its peak (bigger than London at the time).
•Its Woodhenge—a ring of precisely placed wooden posts—functioned as a solar calendar.
•On the Spring Equinox, the sun rises directly over Monks Mound, the city’s ceremonial and political heart—a moment when rulers may have reinforced their divine right to rule.
•Coincidence? Or a civilization built entirely around the sky?

What if history isn’t what we were told?

For over a century, reports of giant skeletons found in America’s ancient mounds have vanished—without explanation. Some measured 7 feet, 12 feet, even 18 feet tall.

Were they real? If so… where did they go? 🧵👇 These reports weren’t isolated.

From local papers to The New York Times, stories surfaced of enormous human skeletons pulled from burial mounds across the U.S. They were often described as tall, powerfully built, and unlike anything seen before.

So why don’t we hear about them today?

🧵 Eli Lilly: The Billionaire Who Rescued America’s Ancient Secrets

The billionaire behind one of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical empires had an obsession—but it wasn’t medicine.

Eli Lilly was consumed by ancient history.

While others looted Native American mounds, he fought to save them. His passion for America’s lost civilizations reshaped archaeology forever.

But why did he care so much? And what did he uncover that others wanted to erase? 👇 By the early 1900s, America’s ancient past was vanishing.

Mounds—some older than the Roman Empire—were being looted, plowed over, and erased from history. Farmers leveled them. Thieves raided them. Even the U.S. government was guilty.

Lilly saw the destruction and made a choice: He would stop it.

The Mississippian Civilization: America’s Forgotten Superpower:

Before Columbus set foot in the New World, a vast civilization dominated the heart of North America. The Mississippians built monumental cities, pyramid-like mounds, and sprawling trade networks—then suddenly, they vanished. What really happened? Let’s dive in. Their capital, Cahokia, was a metropolis of 20,000+, bigger than London in 1250 AD. It had a massive wooden henge to track the sun, a 14-acre pyramid (Monks Mound), and signs of an elite ruling class. Some even speculate Cahokia was the center of a forgotten empire.

🧵 Let’s talk about one of America’s most mysterious and awe-inspiring ancient sites: Pinson Mounds in Tennessee. This complex holds secrets from 2,000 years ago. It’s one of the largest Middle Woodland ceremonial sites in the U.S. Buckle up for a journey through history. Located near Jackson, Tennessee, Pinson Mounds spans 1,200 acres and features at least 30 earthen mounds, including the second-tallest prehistoric mound in the U.S., Saul’s Mound (72 feet tall). But what was this place used for?

🚨 What if I told you Louisiana hides an ancient city older than the pyramids? Poverty Point, built around 1700 BCE, is one of North America’s most mysterious marvels. Its secrets still baffle archaeologists. Let’s explore! 🧵 🏞️ Located in the Lower Mississippi Valley, Poverty Point was a bustling hub for hunter-gatherers. But its monumental size? Mind-blowing. Six concentric earthen ridges surround a vast plaza, with mounds reaching 70+ feet high! This wasn’t just any camp—it was a metropolis