April 1, 2026

2-19% of Your DNA Comes From an Unknown Species. Here's What Scientists Found.

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Your DNA is not fully human. That is not speculation. It is confirmed science. You carry genetic material from Neanderthals, Denisovans, ancient viruses, and at least one unknown species that has no fossil record and no name. Scientists call them ghost populations. And every major civilization on earth independently recorded the same story: beings that were not human interacted with humanity and produced offspring that were different. Tonight we walk through the confirmed genetics, examine a controversial DNA study that was dismissed but never disproven, and ask why science and ancient tradition are pointing in the same direction while nobody wants to acknowledge it.

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All right, About eight percent of your DNA did not

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come from a human being. It came from a virus,

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an ancient infection that crawled into your ancestors sells millions

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of years ago and never left. It is still there

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right now, lodged into your genome, and some of it

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is actually keeping you alive. That is not a theory

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that is published, peer reviewed, settled science. I guess now

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here is where it gets uncomfortable. On top of that

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viral code, you are also carrying DNA from Neanderthals, from Dosenovan's,

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and from at least one other species. I said that

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one other species that has no name. There we haven't

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found any bones or a fossil record in no explanation.

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Scientists call them ghost populations, not because they are supernatural,

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but because the only proof that they ever existed is

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a fingerprint they left inside you. And that is just

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what we have found so far. Now take a breath

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and consider this. Every major civilization that has ever recorded

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its own origins tells a version of the same story.

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Beings that were not human came down, interacted with humanity,

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and in many cases produced offspring. The Hebrews wrote about

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the Nephlin. The Greeks built an empire, an entire mythology

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around God's fathering children with mortal women. The Norse, the Celts,

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the Hindus, the Aboriginal Australians, the Native Americans, the Chinese,

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the Sumerians. Every continent, every area, every language, the same story.

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Science says your DNA contains pieces of species we cannot

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fully identify. Every ancient culture says something not entirely human

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mixed with us. And somehow nobody wants to put those

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two conversations in the same room. Okay, Tonight today we

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are putting them in the same room. This is Broadcasting Seeds.

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government cover ups, the Bible, all kinds of stuff, the

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places where science, history and faith all collide. And today

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All right, Tonight's episode is called Ghost DNA The Others

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Still living inside You, and I want you to be

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I want to be upfront about what we are doing here.

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We're going to start on solid ground, Okay, published science,

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peer review, genetics, but the kind of stuff no credible

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person disputes. Some do, but either way, and then layer

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by layer, we are going to move into territory that

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gets less comfortable. Okay, but because that questions, but because

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the questions start pointing in directions that most institutions do

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not want to follow. I am not going to tell

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you what to believe. Okay, that has never been how

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the show works. But I am going to lay out

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what we do know, what we have found, and what

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we cannot explain, and what every civilization on this planet

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recorded independently of each other. Now, I want to say

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something before we go any further, because I know my audience.

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Some of you our hearing this and thinking, here we

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go another show treating evolution like gospel, and I hear you, okay,

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Darwinian evolution is in the grand macro sense, is itself

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a theory. It is the dominant framework in mainstream science, though,

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but it is not settled law. It is a model,

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and models get challenged and revised and sometimes thrown out entirely.

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If you are a person of faith and you believe

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God created humanity with intention and purpose, I am not

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here to argue with you on that, Okay, I think

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you know my stance. I am actually going to get

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to something later in this episode that might land closer

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to your worldviews than you expect. So on the other side,

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if you are someone who only trusts peer reviewed journals

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and things, anything outside that system is noise, I would

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ask you to stay with me, okay, because everything in

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the first half of this episode comes directly from published

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mainstream genetics. And when we get to the part okay,

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this episode is asking you to look at what we

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actually know from multiple directions and notice where those directions

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start pointing at the same thing. Because the real question

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tonight is not whether something else contributed to our DNA. Okay,

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bottom line science already confirmed that the real question is

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whether we have found all of them. Yet, let's go now,

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what is really what is already inside us? And if

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someone told you that you were not entirely human, you

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would probably think they were out of their mind. But

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genetically speaking, it is true, and this is not fringe science.

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It is absolutely not speculation. This is the result of

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decades of genome sequencing, fossil DNA extraction, and comparative analysis

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published in the most respective journals on the planet. Let's

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start with what is confirmed beyond any reasonable dispute. Okay,

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if your ancestry traces back to anywhere outside of Subsire

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in Africa, you are carrying between one and two percent

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Neanderthal DNA. That does not sound like much until you

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realize what it actually means. And somewhere around fifty to

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sixty thousand years ago, your ancestors and Neanderthals did not

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just coexist. They had children together, and those children survived

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and their children survived, and the genetic material from that

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contact is still inside you now, influencing your immune system

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and your skin, your hair, your susceptibility to certain diseases.

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This is not ancient history in the abstract, It is

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running in your biology right now today. Then there are

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the desnov We know even less about them than we

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do about Neanderthals. They were identified primarily through DNA, not fossils,

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a fingerbone and a handful of teeth from a cave

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in Siberia. That is almost everything that we have. But

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their genetic signature is actually unmistakable. Some populations in Oceana

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carry up to five percent of desnoven DNA, and one

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of the most fascinating examples is a gene found in

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Tibetan populations that allows them to thrive at extreme altitude

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that genes appear. That gene appears to have come from Desnovens,

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a species we can barely identify, gave modern humans the

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ability to survive on the roof of the earth. So already,

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before we get into anything controversial, the picture is clear.

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You are not a clean, single origin organism. You are,

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bottom line, a composite, a blend of at least three

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known lineages that mixed, merged, and produced you. But here's

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where the ground starts to shift a little. About eight

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percent of your genome as not human at all. It

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is technically viral. Ancient retrovirus has infected your ancestors germline

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cells tens of millions of years ago. Normally a virus

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infects a cell, it then replicates and moves on. But

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these particular infections went deeper. They wrote themselves into the

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DNA of reproductive cells, which means they got passed down

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to every subsequent generation. They are called endogenous retroviruses or

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herbs h e r vs. Okay, And they are not

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just sitting there as molecular fossils. Some of them are

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actually doing things. Two of these viral proteins, since teen

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one and Cistine two are critical to the formation of

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human of the of the human placenta. Okay, Let that

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land for a second. A virus that infected our ancestors

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millions of years ago is now essential to human reproduction.

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Without it, pregnancy, as we know it might not work

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all right. The line between invader and infrastructure blurred freaking

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long time ago. And here's what you really you should

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really make you pause. Only about one to two percent

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of your DNA codes for proteins. I've talked about this

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in past interviews and episodes that I've done. That is

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the part science understands best. Okay. The rest, the other

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ninety eight percent was dismissed for years as junk DNA.

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We now know that was wrong. It is not junk.

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It includes regulatory systems, structural scaffolding, and gene and gene

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switches that control when and how your body expresses what

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is written in your coat. And it is the control

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architecture of your entire biological system. And we are still

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learning what most of that does. Okay, So let's be

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honest about where we actually stand. We have mapped the genome.

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We can read those letters, but we don't We don't

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fully understand the language. We know there are sequences in

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there from Neanderthals and from those novins from ancient viruses

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as well, obviously, and we now we know that some

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of what is in there does not match anything we

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have identified yet. That is not conspiracy. That is the

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current state of the science. Okay. Now it raises a

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question that most researchers will acknowledge privately, even if they

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will not say it on camera. Okay, if we have

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already confirmed our DNA contains contributions from multiple non Sapien sources,

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and we know that we do not fully understand the

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regulatory orchestructure architecture that makes up the vast majority of

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the genome. How confident should we be that we have

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identified every contributor? That's my question, because in twenty twenty,

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all right, just six years ago, a team of geneticists

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at UCLA went looking for an answer, and what they

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found was a name that sounds like it belongs on

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this show. They called them ghost populations, and that is

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exactly where we are headed now, the ghost in the code.

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And in twenty twenty two, researchers at UCLA Aaron Dervasula

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Dervosola and Serum Sanker san Car Arman. Sorry, guys, I

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really don't know, published a study in Science Advances that

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quietly changed the conversation about human origins. They analyzed the

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genomes of over four hundred people from four West African populations,

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the Yoruba, the Isan, the Mendi, and the Gambian, all right,

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all drawn from the one thousand Genomes project, and what

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they found was DNA that did not belong to Homo sapiens.

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It did not match Neanderthal sequences either, and it did

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not match desanovins either it did not match anything in

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any existing genetic database on this planet. Their conclusion was

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that these populations carry somewhere between two and nineteen percent

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two and nineteen percent of their genetic ancestry from an

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archaic hominin species that split off from the human family

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tree before Neanderthals even existed. That is not a small number, Okay,

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that is not And the species that left it behind

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has no name, no fossils, no bones, no skeletal remains,

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no tools, no cave paintings, nothing. The only evidence that

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ever existed is a fingerprint in the DNA of living people.

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That is why they are called ghost populations. But is

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the shocking to everyone Not because anyone is being dramatic, Okay,

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I'm not trying to be dramatic, but because there is

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literally nothing left of them except what they wrote into us,

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into our genome. And it gets more unsettling, folks. The

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researchers could not determine whether this was a single interbreeding

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event or something that happened repeatedly over thousands of years.

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They also could not rule out the possibility that the

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ghost signal came from more than one unknown species, multiple groups,

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multiple contacts, multiple insertions into the human genome from beings

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we cannot identify. Now Here's where I need to be

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straight with you, okay, because that is how the show works.

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Not everyone in genetics agrees with the ghost population interpretation.

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A two thousand and three study proposed that what looks

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like archaic introgression might instead be explained by deep population

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structure within Africa itself. So, in other words, maybe these

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are not separate species. Maybe they are ancient human groups

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that were isolated long enough in their DNA to look

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for in when it finally mikes back in. That is

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a legitimate counter argument. I will give it that. Okay.

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I am not going to pretend it does not exist.

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But even under that interpretation, the core reality does not change.

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There are sequences and in the human genome that we

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cannot account for. Bottom line, period, Whether you came from

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a separate species or from a deeply divergent branch of

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our own family tree that we never that we have

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never found, the result is the same. Something contributed to

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what you are, and we do not know what it is.

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Bottom line. Now, let me take you somewhere that most

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science shows will not go shocker. But this is broadcasting seeds,

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and we do not stop at the edge of the

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approved narrative. Okay. In twenty twelve, a veterinarian and geneticist

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named doctor Melbaketchum published the results of a five year

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DNA study she had collected over well, she didn't collect them,

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but other people collected one hundred, over one hundred samples

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from across North America, now samples that were submitted as

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potential sasquatch biological material, all right, hair tissue, blood saliva.

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She then ran mitochondrial DNA analysis and next generation whole

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genome sequencing on the most promising samples. Her findings needless

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to say, we're explosive. Okay. The mitochondrial DNA came back

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one hundred percent human every single sample, But the nuclear DNA,

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which is the side of the father. The nuclear DNA

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told a different story, and Catchum reported that the nuclear

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genome contained a mosaic of human sequences interspersed with novel

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sequences that did not match any known species. Her conclusion

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was that these samples represented a hybrid hominin the offspring

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of a human female and males from an unknown primemate

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species arising approximately fifteen thousand years ago. Now I need

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to be honest about what happened next, because if you

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do not give because if I do not give the

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full picture, I am not doing my job. Okay. So

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no peer review journal would publish the study. They wouldn't

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even touch it. Catchum eventually created her own journal, the

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Denovo Scientific Journal, and published it there. Now, the scientific

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community dismissed it almost immediately. Critics pointed to potential contamination.

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a primate geneticist. But whatever, come on a researcher. A

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researcher from Princeton stated publicly that the analysis either came

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back as fully human or failed in ways consistent with

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technical artifacts, whatever that means. The samples were never made

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available for independent replication. That is the case against it,

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and frankly, it's not nothing. Okay. But here's the part

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nobody talks about. The study was never formally disproven with

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competent data or I should say competing data. Sorry, No

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independent lab took the same samples and ran the same

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analysis and produced contradictory results. Okay. It was dismissed on

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procedural grounds, on credible grounds, on the fact that the

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conclusion was too extraordinary for the evidence as presented, and

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those are valid scientific objections. I am not going to

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sit here and tell you the Ketchum study proves anything,

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but I will say this, Doctor Melbleketcham, a geneticist or veterinarian,

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submitted over one hundred samples, okay, from trusted sources, sources

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that if you get into the digging into this, look

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into them. David Pilates, it's got Carpenter, a whole bunch

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of reputable people. Okay. She ran the sequencing, got results

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that did not fit the existing model, published them, and

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instead of the scientific community rushing to test it themselves

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to either confirm it or blow it out of the

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water with hard data, Dyve freaking walked away. They mocked it,

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and they moved on. Okay, that doesn't sound like science.

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That is not how you resolve an extraordinary claim. That

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is how you avoid one. Okay. I have my own

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opinions on this, obviously. The question I cannot let go

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of this is if mainstream science has already confirmed that

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our DNA contains contributions from species, we have never found

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species with no fossils, no name, no physical evidence of

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any freaking kind. Then why is it so outrageous to

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consider the possibility that there are others we have not

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identified yet. Why is the ghost population in the UCLA

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study acceptable but the ghost in the North American forest

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sample is automatic fraud. I'm not saying the Catchum study

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is right, Okay. I've looked at the data, though, and

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it's pretty compelling. I don't care what anyone says, at

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least from my understanding. I'm not a scientist or geneticist,

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but damn I mean, I am saying that the refusal

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to follow up tells you something. And what it tells

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you is that the institutions controlling what counts as real

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science have boundaries that are not always about evidence. Okay,

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I think we know this. Sometimes they are about comfort.

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So we have talked about what science has found, okay,

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we have talked about what science has dismissed. But there

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is a third layer to this conversation that makes both

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of these, frankly feel small, Because long before anyone sequenced

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or extracted DNA from a cave in Siberia, every civilization

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on Earth was already telling you this story. Every culture

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told the same story period. This is the part of

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the episode where I step off the peer reviewed path

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and into something older, something that does not come from

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citations or control groups or prevalue or p values. And

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I want you to understand why I am doing it, Okay,

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Because when one culture records something unusual, okay, it's a mythology.

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When two cultures on opposite sides of the planet record

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the same thing independently, it's a freaking pattern, okay. And

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when every I mean to a t it, when every

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major civilization that has ever existed records the same foundational

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narrative with no evidence of cross contamination between their traditions,

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that is something else entirely. Okay. What every one of

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them recorded was this, Beings that were not human came

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to Earth, they interacted with humanity, and in many cases

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they produced offspring that were different from ordinary people. So

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let's walk through it, starting with Hebrew scriptures, Genesis chapter six,

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verses one through four. The sons of God saw the

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daughters of men, took them as wives, and produced the nephilum.

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Talk about this ad nauseum in this community, Okay. The

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text calls them heroes of old men of renowned the

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Book of Enoch, which is not in the standard Biblical canon,

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but is considered authoritative by early Jewish and Christian communities.

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Expands on this significantly. It names the group of angels

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called the Watchers, who descend to Earth, took human wives

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and taught humanity forbidden knowledge metallurgy, weaponry, war, cosmetics, astrology.

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The offspring of this union were giants, and the corruption

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that followed was so severe that it triggered a global

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flood to reset the earth. Okay, that's when you start

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ticking on the world. The flood myth too, that goes

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across everything. Have another podcast episode about that as well.

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Go check it out. That is not a periphery story

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in scripture. It is set up for one of the

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most significant events in the entire Biblical narrative. Now go

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to Greece. The entire Greek mythology system is built on

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the premise that God's mate it with humans and produced demigods.

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Zeus alone fathered Hercules, Pericles, Helen of Troy, and dozens

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of others through unions with mortal women. They were not

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metaphors to the Greeks. They were genealogies, lineages that carried

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divine blood into the human population and produced beings of

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extraordinary strength and intelligence and capability, and when those beings overstepped,

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when the boundaries between divine and human was violated to aggressively,

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the gods responded with punishment and floods and wars and destruction.

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Sound familiar. The Romans inherited that framework wholesale and woven

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into the foundations of their civilization. Roman emperors claimed descendant

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from gods. It was not flattery, it was political theology.

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Divine ancestry was treated as a legitimate basis for authority.

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The Norse had the Asher and the vain van Ar,

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two races of gods who interacted with humanity and with

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each other. The offspring of these interacted interactions were woven

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into the sagas as figures of great power and destiny. Okay,

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the boundary between gods and humans in Norse cosmology was

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not a wall. It was a door, and it swung

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both ways. The Celts recorded the Thumididdnan, a race of

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supernatural I know I'm butchering these names, sorry, a race

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of supernatural beings who ruled Ireland before the arrival of

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the Gauls. They were described as tall, beautiful, powerful, and

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skilled in arts. And magic that ordinary humans could not replicate,

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sounds familiar to me, and when they were eventually displaced,

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the legends say they did not die. It says that

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they went to underground, into the hills, into the hollow places.

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They became the hidden people, and the Celtic tradition held

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that their bloodline did not disappear, that it merged next

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in Hindu In Hindu tradition, the pattern is identical, but

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the scale is vast. Gods dissented descended to earth and

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physical form, interact with humans and produce children who carry

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something different in their nature. The Maharaba is filled with

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warriors fathered by gods conceived through unions with mortal women.

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They carry abilities that no ordinary person could possess. In Islam,

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the Gin are described as being of separate creation, made

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from smokeless fire rather than clay. They exist alongside humanity.

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interaction includes physical influence and even offspring. The Gin are

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not angels. They're not demons in the Christian sense either.

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its own agency, and its own capacity to cross into

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the human world. Next, we have Native American traditions across

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dozens of nations describe star people sky beings who came

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from above, lived among humans, taught them, and in many accounts,

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intermarried with them. These are not fringe legends within these cultures.

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They are origin stories. The Lakota, the Hopi, the Cherokee,

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the Zuni. Different languages, different geographies, same core narrative. Aboriginal

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Australian dream time right describes c creator beings who shaped

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the land and the people. These beings did not simply

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make humans and leave. Their essence remained embedded in the

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world and in the people in the bloodlines. The idea

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that something non human is woven into the fabric of

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what it means to be a person is not foreign

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to Aboriginal cosmology. It is foundational In China. The oldest

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known dynasty period records the three sovereigns being described as

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king God kings of great stature who possessed supernatural abilities

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and were said to be sons of a great God

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born to human women. They taught the people how to

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cut stone, make fire, and organize civilization. They were not

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ordinary rulers. They were something else that came first and

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left something behind. Now stop for a second and look

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at that that. Look at what just happened. I just

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walked through the Hebrew, the Greek, the Roman, the Norse,

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the Celtic, Hindus, Islamic, Native American, Aboriginal, Australian, Chinese, and

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Sumerian traditions every continent, every era, multiple language families with

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no documented contact during the periods these traditions were forming, okay,

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and every single one of them recorded the same basic narrative.

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Something that was not human interacted with human vanity. It

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produced offspring. Those offspring were different, and in many cases,

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something catastrophic followed that. You can dismiss one culture's mythology,

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