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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639: Basement #009: Eric Wargo | The Block Universe, UFO Time Machines, and Precognitive Dreams

639: Basement #009: 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...

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638: The Science of Death | The Living Feel It Too

638: 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 Mar 33min

637: Basement #008: Avi Loeb | 3I Atlas, Alien Craft, and Suppressed Research

637: Basement #008: 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 Mar 3h 24min

636: Vanished: Three Disappearances Nobody Can Explain

636: Vanished: Three Disappearances Nobody Can Explain

Gather round for three missing persons cases that investigators, search teams, and forensic experts have never been able to explain. A medical student disappeared from a packed bar in Columbus, Ohio —...

20 Mar 48min

635: Basement #007: Hugh Newman | Giant Skeletons, Sumerian Myths, and Megaliths

635: Basement #007: Hugh Newman | Giant Skeletons, Sumerian Myths, and Megaliths

Hugh Newman is an author, explorer, and ancient mysteries researcher who has spent over two decades investigating megalithic sites around the world. He is the founder of the Megalithomania Conference,...

16 Mar 2h 55min

634: The Murder Cult Started By A Banned Post

634: The Murder Cult Started By A Banned Post

In 2010, someone posted a thought experiment on a philosophy forum. Within hours, people were having nightmares. The founder deleted it immediately — which only made it spread faster. The idea is simp...

13 Mar 31min

633: Knights Templar, the Green Jar and the Scroll That Changes Everything | Basement #006: Scott Wolter

633: Knights Templar, the Green Jar and the Scroll That Changes Everything | Basement #006: Scott Wolter

Scott Wolter, a forensic geologist, has spent 25 years following a trail of physical evidence — rocks, runes, bones, and buried artifacts — that leads somewhere most historians refuse to go. It starts...

9 Mar 3h 23min

632: Science Behind Time Storms | Time Isn't What You Think It Is

632: Science Behind Time Storms | Time Isn't What You Think It Is

In 1977, a soldier walked into a glowing mist in the Chilean mountains and returned fifteen minutes later with five days of stubble on his face.  A pilot flew 250 miles in 34 minutes through a luminou...

6 Mar 37min

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