525: Humans vs Neanderthals | When Monsters Were Real and We Were Their Prey

525: Humans vs Neanderthals | When Monsters Were Real and We Were Their Prey

Humans are the apex predator. Not *an* apex predator. *The* apex predator. Other than a handful of bacteria and viruses, there’s pretty much nothing stronger, more intelligent, or more adaptable than Homo sapiens. Telling the human story from the beginning is difficult. It was a time when two words defined our world: fear and violence. It was a time when we were *not* the apex predator; we were their prey.We emerged from our caves during the day. Hoping we wouldn’t be hunted by the monsters in the woods.So vicious were these monsters they still live in our myths -- and our nightmares. They created a generational trauma embedded into our DNA over hundreds of thousands of years of evolution. These creatures were stronger, faster, and (when it came to combat) more intelligent than we were. It’s a miracle any of us are even here. This is the story of how modern humans conquered the monsters and won the battle for the world.But here's the thing: those fearsome monsters defeated by humans? Were other humans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Basement: Daniel Whiteson | CERN, Dark Matter, and the Aliens Next Door

Basement: Daniel Whiteson | CERN, Dark Matter, and the Aliens Next Door

Daniel Whiteson is a particle physicist at UC Irvine and an active researcher at CERN's Large Hadron Collider — the largest machine ever built — where 5,000 scientists are using high-energy collisions...

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Basement: Peter Levenda | Nazis, UFOs, and the Hidden History Nobody Tells You

Basement: Peter Levenda | Nazis, UFOs, and the Hidden History Nobody Tells You

Peter Levenda has spent more than thirty years investigating the connections between occult history, intelligence operations, and the events that shaped the modern world. He is the author of more t...

13 Huhti 4h 16min

The Roswell Alien Interview | Your Soul Has Been Here Thousands of Times

The Roswell Alien Interview | Your Soul Has Been Here Thousands of Times

In 2007, a writer named Lawrence Spencer opened an envelope he didn't ask for. Inside were military documents from Roswell Army Air Field, dated 1947. Duty rosters, memos, Top Secret stamps. And bu...

10 Huhti 38min

Basement: Marc D'Antonio | UFO Propulsion, The Fifth Dimension, and 40 Billion Habitable Worlds

Basement: Marc D'Antonio | UFO Propulsion, The Fifth Dimension, and 40 Billion Habitable Worlds

Marc D'Antonio is an astronomer specializing in exoplanets, MUFON's chief photo and video analyst, and the CEO of FX Models — a visual effects company whose clients include Hollywood studios and def...

6 Huhti 3h 29min

True Internet Horrors: Chip-Chan, Local 58, and The Plague Doctor

True Internet Horrors: Chip-Chan, Local 58, and The Plague Doctor

Gather round for three stories the internet found and couldn't put down. A DVD arrived in Sweden with no return address — on it, a figure in a plague doctor mask standing inside an abandoned psychiatr...

3 Huhti 44min

The Basement: Eric Wargo | The Block Universe, UFO Time Machines, and Precognitive Dreams

The Basement: Eric Wargo | The Block Universe, UFO Time Machines, and Precognitive Dreams

Eric Wargo is an anthropologist, science writer, and the author of five books on one of the most controversial ideas in modern science — that the future is already fixed, and that your brain knows mor...

30 Maalis 2h 54min

The Science of Death | The Living Feel It Too

The Science of Death | The Living Feel It Too

A doctor walks into a trauma room and sees a dead woman floating above a dying man. He isn't the patient's physician. He just felt the pull to go in. That's how this story starts — and it gets strange...

27 Maalis 36min

Basement: Avi Loeb | 3I Atlas, Alien Craft, and Suppressed Research

Basement: Avi Loeb | 3I Atlas, Alien Craft, and Suppressed Research

Avi Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, a internationally bestselling author, and one of the most decorated astronomers alive. He earned his PhD in Physics from ...

23 Maalis 3h 24min

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