Atlantis Left Its Technology in Egypt

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• 0:28AJ Gentile?

  In 1851, August Marriott crawled through a doorway buried under the Egyptian desert. He stood up, lit a candle, and scanned the room. He was in an ancient tunnel. Then his candle reflected light off an object that looked completely out of place. It was a massive box, as big as a car, carved from solid granite. But the granite was smooth, too smooth. The stone was so polished, he could see its reflection. This was engineering beyond anything he thought possible. Marriott never expected to find an object built with advanced technology. He was even more surprised when he found 23 more.

• 1:19AJ Gentile?

  A year earlier, in October 1850, 29-year-old August Marriott walked out into the desert at Saqqara and spotted a carved stone head sticking out of a sand dune. It was a sphinx, and Marriott knew right away what was buried underneath it. Marriott remembered an ancient book by the Greek geographer Strabo, who wrote about a lost temple out here called the Serapeum. Strabo said the desert winds buried a long avenue of sphinxes right up to their heads. It was the secret tomb where Egypt buried its living gods. The Louvre had sent Marriott to Cairo with a bag of government money to buy old religious manuscripts from desert monasteries. Standing in front of that sphinx's head in the sand, he made a choice that could have landed him in prison.

• 2:03Speaker 02

  It was a revelation. At that moment, I forgot my mission. I forgot the patriarch, the convents, the Coptic and Syriac manuscripts, all of it. And on the 1st of November 1850, at one of the most beautiful sunrises I ever saw in Egypt, 30 workmen were gathered under my orders.

• 2:27AJ Gentile?

  He spent the Louvre's manuscript budget on shovels. His crew dug out one limestone sphinx, then a second, then a buried highway of them winding under the dunes. These weren't giants like the great sphinx at Giza. Each statue was about six feet long, lining both sides of a sunken road. But week after week, his men pulled out 370 sphinxes and more than 1,000 small bronze statues of Egyptian gods. Then the Egyptian government came for them.

• 2:57AJ Gentile?

  When Egypt's ruler Abbas Pasha heard that France planned to ship those treasures to Paris, he demanded every single piece.

• 3:04Speaker 03

  Abbas wanted all of it.

• 3:06AJ Gentile?

  Abbas, not "Abba."

• 3:07Speaker 03

  Still, the winner takes it all.

• 3:10AJ Gentile?

  He sent three army officers to Saqqara to watch the trenches and count every find. When the officers demanded an inventory, Marriott's foreman handed them a list of 513 items. They didn't mention they hid over 500 more. From that night on, Marriott ran an underground smuggling ring.

• 3:27Speaker 03

  Literally underground. I respect a man who commits to the bit.

• 3:31AJ Gentile?

  He moved his packing workshop to the bottom of a deep shaft where no officer could see it. Then he sank a second shaft.

• 3:38Speaker 03

  Hehehe.

• 3:39AJ Gentile?

  Stop it. He sank a second shaft into the sand and covered it with boards and dirt during the day. Marriott wrote that you could ride a horse right over that hidden shaft and never even know it was there. Every night after the guards went to sleep, his men pulled the boards back, climbed down with lanterns, and dug in secret. Meanwhile, one of his workmen carved fake stone tablets in camp. Marriott handed the forgeries to Pasha's officers, but packed the real artifacts into crates for France. The Egyptians never knew they were fakes until Marriott bragged about it in his memoirs years later.

• 4:14AJ Gentile?

  At dusk on November 12, 1851, the buried road of sphinxes ended at a stone doorway cut straight into the bedrock. Fallen blocks jammed the entrance, so Marriott's crew swung sledgehammers through the night. Before dawn, a narrow gap opened at the top of the door, and Marriott crawled inside with a candle in each hand. He stood up and slowly scanned the room. It was an ancient chamber carved into the rock. The walls were rough and the floor was covered with thousands of years in sand and dust, and it was nothing unexpected. Then Marriott's light reflected off something in the room, something that didn't belong there at all.

• 4:54AJ Gentile?

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• 6:21AJ Gentile?

  In the center of the room, Marriott found a box, an enormous box. It was 13 feet long, more than 70 feet wide, and 11 feet tall with its lid. The lower box weighed 70 tons, just the lid weighed 30 tons. Marriott walked deeper down the corridor. He passed another side room with another giant box, and then another. The main tunnel was more than 600 feet long, with chambers cut into both sides of the bedrock. He counted 24 giant stone boxes in all. Marriott had found the Serapeum. Each box was cut from a single block of solid granite, and this wasn't local stone. It came from Aswan, almost 600 miles up the Nile.

• 7:03AJ Gentile?

  Someone quarried those 100-ton blocks and floated them down the river, then they dragged them across the desert dunes and slid them down a narrow ramp underground. It's a hard job getting those blocks to the tunnel, but inside the tunnel, the job got even harder. The main corridor leaves only a couple of feet to spare on either side of a box, and each side room is barely wider than the stone itself. To set one in place, the workers had to haul 70 tons of granite down the narrow tunnel. Then they had to swing it 90 degrees into a tight room and lower it into a floor pit without cracking it. But the boxes weren't cracked, they were perfect.

• 7:41Speaker 03

  Pivot, pivot, pivot!

• 7:44AJ Gentile?

  There is no room down there for a crowd of men pulling ropes, but whoever built this tunnel did it 24 times. Installing the boxes took masterful engineering, but the engineering used inside the boxes was more than masterful, it was impossible. Inside the boxes, the dark granite walls are polished so smooth, they shine like a black mirror. And there's nothing to suggest how they even did this. There are no chisel marks, no abrasions, no scratches, no imperfections of any kind.

• 8:15Speaker 03

  Who needs a mirror that big?

• 8:17AJ Gentile?

  Well, nobody knows.

• 8:18Speaker 03

  They're probably lizard people. They're gonna check the human suits on street.

• 8:22AJ Gentile?

  This is hard to do today with power tools. To polish granite and mirror smooth by hand defies logic, or implies the use of technology we don't understand or haven't discovered yet.

• 8:34AJ Gentile?

  Almost all the box's lids were shoved aside and were empty, all except one. Marriott's workers tried to move it, but it wouldn't budge. Remember, just the lids weighed 30 tons, and the seam between the lid and the box was so tight, they couldn't wedge anything into the gap. The blade of a pocket knife couldn't get into the seam, that's how perfect it was. There was no way a metal pry bar would even fit. Finally, Marriott blew the lid open with dynamite, and that one was empty too.

• 9:01Speaker 03

  All that work, all that buildup, anything was empty. Ah, poor Geraldo.

• 9:09AJ Gentile?

  But there were supposed to be more than 24 boxes. There was a 25th box, just sitting in the middle of the corridor. It was rough and unpolished. For some reason, they stopped in the middle of the job and never came back. A tremendous amount of resources went into this project. For them to just give up doesn't make sense. They would have finished the job, but they didn't.

• 9:30Speaker 03

  Yeah, I've hired contractors, it's how they work. They always need two more weeks and two more grand.

• 9:36AJ Gentile?

  Something made them leave. Whether it was war or a natural disaster, by the time it was safe enough to come back, nobody did. They either didn't finish the job because they didn't know how, or so much time had passed that they never knew it was under their feet. Whatever scared the workers out of that tunnel is still a mystery.

• 9:56AJ Gentile?

  A week after Marriott broke in, Abbas Pasha closed the dig down. While Marriott waited in camp, he read the stone tablets his crew had pulled from the sand. The tablets said the boxes were burial tombs, just not for people.

• 10:12AJ Gentile?

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• 11:37AJ Gentile?

  For 3,000 years, Egypt kept a single black bull in a royal palace at Memphis called the Apis Bull and worshipped him as a living god. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the bull was born from a cow that was struck by a flash of lightning from heaven.

• 11:51Speaker 03

  I bet a cow that's hit by lightning smells delicious.

• 11:55AJ Gentile?

  Whenever an old bull died, priests searched all of Egypt for a replacement calf. It had to carry 29 sacred marks, from a white square on its forehead to a beetle mark under its tongue. Together, those markings matched the stars above Egypt. Any bull bearing those marks could predict the future. The bull served as Egypt's highest oracle. Pharaohs, generals, and foreign conquerors like Alexander the Great came to his temple to ask whether they would win a war or when a king would die. If the bull ate from your hand, your future was blessed. If he turned his head away, you were marked for death. Foreign kings who mocked the bull or tried to butcher him died violent deaths. When the Persians conquered Egypt, their king Cambyses demanded to see the god of

• 12:40AJ Gentile?

  flesh and blood. Cambyses drew his dagger, stabbed the bull in the thigh, and laughed at the Egyptians for worshipping cattle. The bull bled to death in its stall. But soon after, as Cambyses climbed onto his horse, his own sword slipped out of its sheath and stabbed him in the thigh in the exact same spot where he slashed the bull, and he died of that wound. Sacred bulls could only serve as oracles for 25 years. On a bull's 25th birthday, priests led him to a secret spring and drowned him.

• 13:11Speaker 03

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• 13:21AJ Gentile?

  This wasn't considered cruelty. It was a ceremony of the highest honor, freeing the god's spirit so he could be reborn. When a bull was drowned, the entire country shaved their heads and mourned. Then priests laid the bull on 16-foot tables of solid alabaster carved with roaring lions, and then they drained his blood. Afterward, they wrapped the body in gold and marched it down into the Serapeum. So if the bulls were buried down there, why were all 24 granite boxes empty? Tomb robbers break into vaults for gold and jewels. Nobody drags a 30-ton granite lid off a box to steal a dead cow. Well, the robbers weren't after cows or treasure. They were looking for technology. Because the Egyptians didn't build the boxes, they found them.

• 14:06AJ Gentile?

  And when they discovered the Serapeum 3,000 years ago, it was already 10,000 years old.

• 14:22AJ Gentile?

  Only four of the 24 boxes have hieroglyphs on them, and the writing is terrible. The granite underneath is ground flat and polished like a mirror, but the hieroglyphs on top are shallow and sloppy. The writing isn't really carved, it's scratched. Typically, when Egyptians build a royal monument, the pharaoh's name was the centerpiece, carved deep and proud inside an oval border called a cartouche. Not here. On one box, someone scratched the outline of the oval of the cartouche and left the space inside completely blank, like they just gave up. Nobody who can polish a 100-ton block of granite like a mirror scratches his name on the side like that. And when you're carving the cartouche of a king, you finish it, you do not leave it blank.

• 15:06AJ Gentile?

  The Egyptians had copper saws and chisels. Now, copper works well for carving limestone and sandstone, but copper is softer than azul granite. Scratching was the best they could do. There was something else unusual about the granite. It was flat. Not somewhat flat, not extremely flat. Perfectly flat. For more than a century after Mariette, nobody tested how flat those granite walls really were. Then Christopher Dunn climbed inside one. Dunn spent 40 years as an aerospace engineer, making jet engine parts that had to be accurate to 1,000th of an inch. If you watch The After Files for a while, you know his work. He's the engineer who says the Great Pyramid was a power plant.

• 15:48AJ Gentile?

  In 1995, Dunn checked two boxes in the Serapeum with a small pocket straight edge, and the stone was so flat, it stunned him. He knew a 6-inch blade was too short to judge a 13-foot box, so he went back home, and he got instruments for aerospace inspection. It took a few years, but Dunn finally got permission to go back into the Serapeum. He brought a 12-inch steel straight edge, accurate to 1/10,000th of an inch. A human hair is about 30 times thicker than that. He also brought a toolmaker's square calibrated to 50 millionths of an inch. Dunn laid the straight edge against the polished wall and shined a light behind the steel. No light passed underneath, none.

• 16:31AJ Gentile?

  He slid the blade across the stone and checked again, and the wall stayed dead flat all the way across its face. This is extremely difficult to do with today's technology. It should not have been possible thousands of years ago. He checked one inside corner where the walls meet the roof, and then another where two walls meet. The steel blade sat flush against both surfaces at once, and zero light came through. Those corners weren't just close to 90 degrees, they were perfect right angles. And the two inside walls, which were about five feet apart, ran parallel from top to bottom. Again, perfectly parallel.

• 17:13AJ Gentile?

  Dunn knew from decades of machine shops how hard this is to pull off. Cutting two parallel walls of granite five feet apart with perfectly square inside corners takes heavy machinery. You cannot do this by hand.

• 17:26Speaker 03

  By hand, eh? Must be nice. Once again, you have offended everyone in the fins, claws, and who's community.

• 17:34AJ Gentile?

  I was just describing an engineering problem.

• 17:36Speaker 03

  Ten fingers, two thumbs, and you people still open chip bags with your teeth.

• 17:41AJ Gentile?

  When Dunn got home, he called four precision granite companies in the US. Those companies make the ultra-flat granite reference tables that aerospace and defense factories use to test whether their own machine parts are truly flat. Dunn gave them the dimensions of the Serapeum boxes and asked if they could make one from a single block of stone. None of them could.

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• 19:31AJ Gentile?

  If the boxes weren't coffins for cows, and modern stone companies can't cut one today, then those 24 granite giants were built for something else. They were machines. Start with the stone. Aswan granite contains an unusually high percentage of quartz crystal. When you squeeze quartz under pressure, it generates electricity. This is called piezoelectricity. We see the same technique used in the gallery leading up to the king's chamber in the Great Pyramid. It seemed like whoever built the pyramids also built the Serapeum. Here are 24 hollow boxes of quartz-rich stone that generate electricity. They're lined up inside limestone bedrock, which is an excellent insulator. This doesn't sound like a temple. It sounds like an energy array.

• 20:15AJ Gentile?

  And the boxes hum. Acoustic researchers recorded the inside of the chambers and found that each box holds a deep resonant tone between 60 and 120 hertz. Sound in that range changes activity in the human brain. If the amplitude is high enough, exposure can even trigger visions. Some visitors have dizzy spells near the boxes. Some have even had out-of-body experiences. Even 2,000 years ago, Greek writers reported that giant bronze doors at Memphis, called the Gates of Oblivion, roared whenever the vaults opened. Then in March 2018, an independent researcher carried a Geiger counter down into the tunnel. Out in the main walkway, the counter clicked at about 14 times a minute.

• 20:58AJ Gentile?

  When he climbed inside one of the granite boxes, the radiation count nearly tripled to 38 clicks a minute.

• 21:05Speaker 03

  38 clicks a minute? My only fins would kill for those numbers.

• 21:11AJ Gentile?

  This suggests those 24 granite vaults once held radioactive material. Look at how the boxes are built. Foot-thick, solid granite walls, 30-ton airtight lids, and deep pits cut into solid limestone bedrock. Together, those parts create an underground machine. The radiation provided the heat. The quartz granite turned that pressure into electricity. And the stone chambers focused the sound. If these chambers were already 10,000 years old when the Egyptians found them, there's only one ancient civilization who could have built them. Atlantis. And remember who the Atlanteans worshipped as god? They worshipped bulls.

• 21:55AJ Gentile?

  The story of Atlantis comes from Plato, but he didn't invent it. Around 600 B.C., the Greek statesman Solon visited Egypt, and the priests there told him that the Egyptian temple records went back thousands of years before Greece existed. Those Egyptian records described a powerful empire destroyed in a single day and night of floods and earthquakes. And it happened around 9,600 B.C., right at the end of the Last Ice Age. That sudden cataclysm explains the 25th granite box still sitting rough and unfinished in the Serapeum hallway. The original crew was hauling that 100-ton block down the narrow bedrock passage when disaster struck on the surface above. The bedrock shook. Water roared across the plateau. And the workers dropped their tools in the middle of the shift and never came back.

• 22:40AJ Gentile?

  And Plato's account of Atlantis solved the strangest riddle of the Serapeum. It showed why the Egyptians connected those granite boxes to a sacred bull. When Plato wrote about Atlantis in his dialogue, Critias, he described the empire's central ceremony. Inside a sacred temple enclosure belonging to Poseidon, black bulls roamed free. Before the kings of Atlantis could pass judgment or make laws, they had to capture one of those bulls without weapons. Then they sacrificed it over a sacred stone column and drained its blood. I covered this ritual in detail in our episode about the basques, if you want to learn more about it. At Memphis, right above the Serapeum, Egyptian priests kept a sacred black bull in a royal courtyard as their highest judge and oracle. When that bull died,

• 23:23AJ Gentile?

  they laid it on 16-foot tables of solid alabaster and drained its blood, just like they did in Atlantis. So did survivors from Atlantis bring their sacred bull ritual to Egypt after the flood? Or did they build the Serapeum themselves before the cataclysm hit? Either way, when the later Egyptians dug into the plateau at Saqqara, they found 24 impossible stone machines from the world before the flood. They couldn't build them, and they didn't know how to turn them on. So they wrapped the old Atlantean bull ritual around the granite boxes, scratched their pharaoh's names onto the sides, and worshiped the ruins as the tomb of a god. And if you think modern officials want to test that theory, look at what happened after Dunn published his measurements. Right after Dunn's second visit in 2001,

• 24:07AJ Gentile?

  Egypt closed the tunnel to the public and kept it shut for more than a decade. Later, Egyptian engineer Ahmed Adli checked the boxes inside the Serapeum with precision gauges and confirmed Dunn's findings. The sides are flat, and the corners make exact right angles.

• 24:25Speaker 04

  Applying the instruments, I was astonished to find that the internal measurements are so precise with unique characteristics of parallelism and right-angled corners of 90.0 degrees. Not 90.1 and not 89.9. 90.

• 24:44AJ Gentile?

  In 2024, Adli joined an independent research team bringing portable 3D laser scanners to Egypt to map ancient stonework down to the thousandth of an inch. Less than 50 miles south of Saqqara, there's another red granite box. Over a century ago, Flinders Petrie, the father of modern archaeology, called it "one of the greatest triumphs of accurate stonework ever done in history." When the team put a laser on Petrie's box in 2024, they published the full 3D map online and proved the stone was flat to within a thousandth of an inch. Next, the team went to scan the 24 boxes inside the Serapeum. They put up a project page for the Serapeum on their website and left it completely blank. There are no 3D models,

• 25:27AJ Gentile?

  no laser data, and no explanation. Either Egyptian officials blocked the lasers at the gate or the team scanned those 24 boxes and is not allowed to show what they found. In an older tunnel beside the main hall, part of the gallery is still buried behind a massive rock slide that nobody's passed since 1852. In 2020, archaeologists from Louvre began clearing the rubble. They pulled new stone tablets out of the debris in front of that blocked tunnel. And right after, officials quietly shut the mission down. Neither the Louvre nor the Egyptian government has explained why. 175 years after August Mariette crawled in with a candle, 24 empty granite boxes still sit under the desert sand.

• 26:10AJ Gentile?

  Some say the pharaohs cut them with copper tools, even though four modern granite companies say they couldn't build one today. Others say they are the surviving machines of a lost civilization from the age of Atlantis, still humming in the bedrock, still radioactive. The truth is sitting behind a collapsed wall and inside 24 stone vaults whose scans nobody is allowed to see.

• 26:35AJ Gentile?

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• 27:59AJ Gentile?

  A Frenchman follows a sphinx head in the sand and breaks into a buried tunnel packed with 24 100-ton granite boxes. The stone is polished like a black mirror, flat to 10,000ths of an inch, and every box is empty. Maybe they were power generators or radiation vaults built before the flood by survivors of Atlantis. It's a good story, but how much of it is true? Well, August Mariette's desert heist is completely true. He really did spend the Louvre's manuscript money on shovels. He dug through a hidden shaft at night and fooled the Egyptian guards with fake stone tablets. Remember how Mariette bragged about those fakes in his memoirs years later? You'd think the Egyptian government was furious when they found out. Instead, Egypt's new ruler hired their best thief in the desert

• 28:42AJ Gentile?

  to stop other Europeans from looting the country. In 1858, Egypt put Mariette in charge of its antiquities. And then he founded the Cairo Museum. The 24 granite boxes are real too, and not a single bull was ever found inside them. Still, Mariette did find untouched bull burials in an older tunnel right next door. In 1852, he broke into a sealed chamber from the reign of Ramses the Great and found bull bones buried inside wooden coffins with gold jewelry.

• 29:10Speaker 03

  A cow dies, he gets buried with gold. A goldfish dies, he gets flushed down a toilet in a half moment of silence.

• 29:18AJ Gentile?

  Because of that find, historians say the 24 granite boxes were empty only because ancient tomb robbers pried the lids back to steal the gold. And as Egypt grew richer over the centuries, priests upgraded the bull coffins from wood to limestone and finally to Aswan granite. One part of Mariette's legend is false. He never blew open a sealed granite box with dynamite. Dynamite wasn't even invented until 16 years after he entered the tunnel. He used gunpowder to clear fallen ceiling rocks in the older gallery, not to blast open a granite lid. And what about Atlantis and the underground machine? Well, Plato really did write about the kings of Atlantis hunting sacred bulls and draining their blood. And that parallel to Memphis is striking. Still, there's no physical evidence connecting the Serapeum to Atlantis or the Ice Age.

• 30:03AJ Gentile?

  Over 800 dated tablets from the tunnel walls record Egyptian crews carving those galleries between 650 B.C. and about the time of Cleopatra. The radiation and the deep hum inside the boxes have natural explanations too. Granite contains trace uranium that releases radon gas inside closed stone spaces. And any polished stone chamber of that size hums around 100 hertz. As for the crooked hieroglyphs and the blank-name oval, historians say priests rushed the carving during a political crisis. We'll take their word for it.

• 30:38AJ Gentile?

  So what's still up for debate? Well, how the inside of those boxes was made. Christopher Dunn and Ahmed Adli both tested the inside walls with hand gauges and found them dead flat and dead square. Skeptics say ancient masons ground the stone flat using pounding rocks, copper saws, and wet quartz sand. But nobody has ever published a full 3D laser scan of the 24 boxes to settle the argument. And it would be so easy to do. Now, I'm not saying the Egyptians didn't build the Serapeum. But the more I learn, the more I lean toward the uncomfortable theory that an advanced civilization existed before the flood. And that's why I always come back to the 25th box, sitting rough and unfinished in the hallway. Whoever those builders were, they didn't have smartphones or satellites, but they

• 31:23AJ Gentile?

  could cut 100-ton granite better than we can today. And right in the middle of a normal workday, they dropped their tools and never came back. Mainstream historians wave off advanced engineering as pseudoscience. That's a mistake. We should study so-called pseudoscience to see if there's a real science in there. Refusing to look isn't just arrogant, it's dangerous. Asteroids, solar storms, pole shifts, supervolcanoes, they've wiped the slate clean before and they will do it again. Instead of locking the gates and leaving the rubble in place, we should be digging for every clue those builders left behind. Because if we don't figure out what happened to them and how they survived, we're going to end up being just another layer in the sediment.

• 32:13AJ Gentile?

  Thank you so much for hanging out today. My name is AJ. There's Hecklefish.

• 32:16Speaker 03

  Bury me like a bull, human. Granite box, gold jewelry, anything but the toilet.

• 32:22AJ Gentile?

  This has been the Y Files. If you had fun or learned something, I'd appreciate if you could like, subscribe, comment, share. That stuff really helps the channel. And like most topics we cover here, today's is recommended by you. So if there's a story you'd like to see or learn more about, go to theyfiles.com/tips or catch us on Discord or the chat, email. Did I say the website? You know how to find us. If you enjoy the stories I tell on the Y Files, check out my other show called The Basement. It's a conversation show where I chat with the interesting people behind the episodes. Some of them you know, some you don't, but they're all fascinating. Like, if you like this ancient history stuff, check out the episode I did with Alex Pecus a couple of weeks ago. He's fantastic.

• 33:05AJ Gentile?

  Well, we cover time travel, moon landing hoaxes, JFK, conspiracies, Hitler escape theories, DMT laser code, all kinds of random stuff. If you're looking for books mentioned in the episodes or by a guest, we keep them all on a website called The Gallery. Link is below. Maybe. Or go to theyfiles.com. The link is up there somewhere. Remember, the Y Files is also a podcast. You can take us on the road and listen 24/7. I upload at least twice a week, episodes, campfire stories, interviews. It's called The Y Files: Operation Podcast, and it's available everywhere you get your podcasts. Oh, and quick thank you to everyone who voted at the Signal Awards, which was new to me. I hadn't heard about it before this year.

• 33:49AJ Gentile?

  I won Listener's Choice for Best Video Podcast Host, and the Y Files won for Best Video Podcast Listener's Choice, and we received more votes than all the other nominees combined. Unbelievable. So thank you for that. Where was I? Take us on the road 24/7. Speaking of 24/7, make sure you check out our 24/7 stream on the Y Files backstage. Over there, we run episodes back to back with some fun content in between, and the live chat is a lot of fun. It's a great community, and it's more entertaining than the videos. Special thanks to our patrons who make this channel possible. Every episode of the Y Files is dedicated to my Patreon members.

• 34:33AJ Gentile?

  I couldn't do any of this without your support, so thank you. And if you'd like to support the channel, keep us going, join our wacky community, consider becoming a member on Patreon. For as little as $3 a month, you get access to perks like seeing videos early with no commercials, exclusive merch, plus two private live streams every week just for you. And the whole Y Files team is on the stream. And you can also turn on your camera, hop up on stage, ask a question. If you want to learn more about a topic, tell a joke, talk about anything you like. It's a great way to get to know us as people. Another great way to support the channel is grab something from the Y Files store.

• 35:07Speaker 03

  Grab a Hecklefish t-shirt or one of these physical coffee mugs that you can stick a fist in, a post stick, a mummy in there, or a bull's hoof, or whatever you want to put in there. Grab a hoodie, some my face hoodie, or get one of these adorable, squeasy, adult, doll toy fishies.

• 35:20AJ Gentile?

  But if you're going to buy merch, make sure you become a member on YouTube. YouTube members get 10% off everything in the Y Files store forever. I know, another membership, it's a pain, but it's only $3. And if you're going to spend $40 on the store, use the code, save the money, and just cancel. That's totally fine with me. I don't touch any of that money anyway. That goes to the team. So by becoming a member, you're saving money on merch and you're supporting the great team behind me.

• 35:48Speaker 03

  Yeah, keep that secret close to your granite box, huh, chief?

• 35:52AJ Gentile?

  Those are the plugs? Yes, those are the plugs, and that's going to do it. Until next time, be safe, be kind, and none of you are appreciated.

• 36:17Speaker 05

  I played for Libya in Area 51. A secret code inside the Bible said I was. I love my UFOs and paranormal fun as well as music. So I'm singing like I should. But then another conspiracy theory becomes the truth, my friends. And it never ends. No, it never ends.

• 36:55Speaker 05

  I fear the crackhead and got stuck inside Mel's home with them chaotic trucks. I'm being only too aware. Did Stanley Kubrick fake the moon landing alone on a film set? Were the shadows people there? The Rockwell aliens just fought the smiling man. I'm told, and his name was Cold. And I can't believe I'm dancing with the fish. Head to fish on Thursday nights with AJ2. And one more zombie beat all through the night. All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth.

• 37:39Speaker 05

  And one more zombie beat all through the night.

• 38:01Speaker 05

  The Mothman sightings and the solar storms still come to have got the secret city underground. Mysterious number stations, planet circle to Project Stargate and what the dark watchers found. In a simulation, don't you worry though. The black night satellite told me so. I can't believe I'm dancing with the fish. Head to fish on Thursday nights with AJ2. And one more zombie beat all through the night. All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth.

• 38:45Speaker 05

  And one more zombie beat all through the night. Head to fish on Thursday nights with AJ2. And one more zombie beat all through the night. All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth. And one more zombie beat all through the night.

• 39:20Speaker 05

  Girlie loves to dance. Girlie loves to dance on the dance floor. Because she is a camel. And camels love to dance when the feeling is right on wasting time.

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