The Basement: Luke Caverns | How One Mistranslated Number Has Hidden Atlantis for Centuries

Go to https://nicnac.com/whyfiles and use code WHYFILES for 20% off, or use the store locator to find Nic Nacs near you. Get your free, 30-second personalized assessment TODAY at https://PDSDebt.com/BASEMENT Luke Caverns is an anthropologist and explorer who's mapped over 80 ancient archaeological sites using LIDAR — sites that don't appear on any map. His grandfather found and lost seven gold mines in New Mexico. Luke found them again. Now he's planning the largest LIDAR scan ever done in the Amazon. We also go deep into Alexander the Great's missing body, the Were Jaguar cults of the Olmecs, and the Minoan civilization that may have been Atlantis. 00:00 - Intro 00:45 - LIDAR and the Mound Builder World: Luke's Secret 3-Year Project 09:00 - Reagan Family Secrets: Cattle Rustlers and the Lost Gold of West Texas 18:26 - Grandfather's Seven Lost Gold Mines of New Mexico 26:09 - Finding the Mines on Google Earth After 9 Months 35:35 - The Grandfather He Never Knew (and the Dream That Proved He Was There) 46:06 - 1.7 GPA to Anthropologist: The Unlikely Path of an Explorer 55:50 - Meeting Dr. Ed Barnhart Over Tacos, Then His First Pyramid 1:08:26 - Wet Socks, Half Rations & 200+ River Crossings: What Expeditions Really Look Like 1:32:39 - Alexander the Great's Life: From Obscure Kingdom to God-King at 22 1:50:00 - Why Ptolemy Founded Alexandria (And Stole Alexander's Body to Do It) 2:15:08 - Cleopatra's Last Gambit and the Final Mystery: Where Is Alexander's Body? 2:43:36 - The Olmecs: A Civilization That Appeared With No Warning and No Origins 3:06:16 - Feathered Serpents, Dragons & What Ancient People Were Really Seeing 3:29:42 - The Were Jaguar Theory: Shamans, Cleft Palates, and a Power War in Stone 4:04:49 - The Minoans: Hot and Cold Running Water While Greece Was Living in Mud 4:20:51 - Zero Casualties from the Largest Eruption in Human History (Then They Vanished) #AncientCivilizations #LostHistory #Atlantis #AJGentile #LukeCaverns 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 Executive Producers: Jennifer Gentile Gino Gentile AJ Gentile Patreon Members Editors: Joe Stone Drew Sullivan Brandon Snyder Ryan Fitzgerald Producers: Victoria Young Haley Burke Research: Haley Burke AJ Gentile Gino Gentile Jen Gentile Victoria Young Written/Hosted by: AJ Gentile Hecklefish J. Moriarty Thank You Mods: The Hybrid Paul Rohrbaugh Mischief SnowCrash BeezySmeezy TrashPanda MaryJaneMcweed AC Sanzel Abbaton SpookyMadison Original Jim With Music on Repeat by Victor Lundberg The Why Files lyrics by Straightjacket Spaceman 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 SOURCES & LINKS YT: https://www.youtube.com/@lukecaverns X: https://x.com/lukecaverns IG: https://www.instagram.com/lukecaverns 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 🎧 The Why Files: OPERATION PODCAST 🎧 🎧 https://thewhyfiles.com/podcast 🎧 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 🙏 SUPPORT THE WHY FILES (Fun, Free Perks!) 🙏 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewhyfiles 🙏 YT Members: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIFk2uvCNcEmZ77g0ESKLcQ/join 👽 BUY WHY FILES MERCH 👽 👽 https://shop.thewhyfiles.com (Code: LIZZIDPEEPLE for 10% off first order) 👽 💬 CHAT WITH US ON DISCORD 💬 💬 https://thewhyfiles.com/discord 💬 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 🌐 OFFICIAL WEBSITE: https://thewhyfiles.com 📸 BE A WHY FILES MODEL (and get free stuff!) 📸 Send a photo of you/family/friends watching TWF, 📸 wearing TWF gear, using TWF merchandise: 📸 https://thewhyfiles.com/wild 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 ▪TWF ON THE WEBS ▪https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWhyFiles/ ▪https://twitter.com/OMGTheWhyFiles ▪https://www.instagram.com/OMGTheWhyFiles ▪https://www.rumble.com/thewhyfiles ▪https://thewhyfiles.locals.com ▪https://www.tiktok.com/@thewhyfiles ▪https://www.facebook.com/OMGTheWhyFiles 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 🐠 BETTER CHANNELS TO WATCH: 🐠 https://www.youtube.com/c/HecklefishMoriarty 🤓 https://www.youtube.com/c/TheWhyFilesBackstage 🎧 https://www.youtube.com/c/TheWhyFilesPodcast