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The video discusses a supposedly ancient city in Colombia that was “found in 1972.” A local story claims it was a city from 1,224 years ago in August, allegedly predating Machu Picchu by 650 years, with the exact figure “six hundred and fifty years.” Access to the site supposedly requires climbing 1,200 stone steps through a jungle. The site is described as having 169 terraces carved into the mountainside, a network of tiled roads, and several small circular plazas.
The narrator claims a group of looters found the site in 1972, allegedly after stumbling upon the stone steps while hunting wild turkey, mirroring other sensational “accidental discovery” narratives. A murder and fighting among the looters allegedly occurred, after which gold figures and ceramic urns from an ancient site appeared on the black market. The director of this group supposedly alerted archaeologists, who reached the site by 1976, though the narrator doubts that timeline. The video asserts the site was reconstructed for six years, between 1976 and 1982, and argues that the true history was hidden or stolen, with the remaining artifacts reduced to crumbs.
The narrator asserts that indigenous peoples allegedly established advanced communities 1,500 years before the Spanish arrived, and claims they grew gardens with tomatoes and corn in year eight (i.e., eight in the ancient timeline), criticizing the mainstream narrative as inconsistent. The story is said to have included that the “old world” had technology and that the farmers who found artifacts in the 1970s were rebranded as looters by the mainstream. A competing group supposedly sent by the mainstream narrative killed the leaders of the looter groups, and the site was later reopened in the early 2000s after kidnappings in 2003, with no more reported incidents since.
The World Monuments Fund (WMF) is said to have mapped the site with LIDAR in 2019, revealing more than 200 structures, including dwellings, terraces, stone paths, plazas, ceremonial sites, storehouses, and canals. In 2023, the WMF reportedly added the site to its project portfolio, promising continued work and suggesting much remains hidden in the jungle. The video speculates there could be tunnel networks underneath the site and wonders whether tunnels connect to other settlements in the region, possibly forming a global underground system.
The narrator raises questions about why tunnels exist under many sites worldwide, suggesting a hidden network beneath the feet and hints at missing children and catacombs, mentioning that over 1,000,000 people per year visit catacombs worldwide. The episode references other sites with alleged hidden histories, including Puqqara, De Tilqara, discovered in 1908, where 5,000 valuable artifacts were found but a mummified body is no longer on display. The video ends with a call to subscribe and promises further exposés in episode 103, while reiterating a belief that narratives are constructed to hide the true past.