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2:34

So this episode is about the Skystones.

2:38

So in nineteen ninety, an Italian

2:40

geologist named Angelo Patoni

2:43

visited a Sierra Leone West

2:45

Africa, and he was on the search

2:47

for diamonds. He was working for a company,

2:49

and They sent him

2:51

there to find some fucking gems. So

2:55

he's studying in the Kono district,

2:57

which is the eastern province of Sarah

2:59

Leone. And this

3:01

was in a little village just outside

3:04

of a place called Freightown. He

3:06

came across this craziest discovery.

3:10

He was shown one of these

3:12

really weird blue stones that

3:15

he could not really identify. He

3:17

thought they were turquoise at first. And

3:19

he was shown them by Fula

3:21

chief which is like a tribal

3:24

headman of the area. And

3:26

like I said, he he said it resembled a

3:29

pure turquoise which would have

3:31

been similar to some that were

3:33

found on the pectorals

3:35

of Egyptian priests. So

3:38

he's like hell yeah, man got some pure

3:40

turquoise. And the chief

3:42

started telling him this

3:44

ancient legend behind Skystones,

3:47

and then he also explained why the area

3:49

was so rich in minerals. And according

3:52

to the legend, the stones were

3:54

the angels who used to live in the

3:56

sky. Now, God found out that

3:59

these angels were planning to revolt,

4:01

so he expelled them down to

4:03

earth for their wrongdoings, and

4:06

they were turned into statues and

4:08

remained buried beneath the soil.

4:11

But they did not arrive alone

4:13

on Earth. Instead, they brought

4:15

a portion of the sky and stars with

4:18

them, and that is why the area

4:20

is so rich in minerals and diamonds. So

4:22

Pitoni starts looking at these stones

4:25

and he's just mesmerized by him.

4:27

So he decides to bring them to

4:29

Europe for examination. He

4:32

took them to the Institute of Natural

4:34

Sciences in Geneva and

4:36

the University Las Sapienza

4:40

in Rome for analysis. And

4:43

he thought the like I said were turquoise,

4:45

but he was way fucking wrong. The

4:47

test showed that the stones did not match

4:50

with any known mineral. And

4:52

many researchers like many. I'll name

4:54

a few more. They've all failed

4:57

to determine where the blue

4:59

color actually came from as well.

5:02

So the Skystones, which

5:04

they are now known as, underwent more

5:07

tests at the University of

5:09

Utrecht, where they were exposed

5:11

to acids to alter their composition but

5:14

nothing happened to them. Crazy

5:16

enough, they were heated up to three

5:18

thousand degrees Celsius. But

5:20

their composition did not change

5:22

at all. A lot of these researchers

5:25

would look at these stones under microscopes

5:28

and shit like that and

5:30

they were convinced that the

5:33

stones had not been made naturally

5:35

and might not be from earth. Then

5:38

the stones were sent to Germany and

5:40

Tokyo for analysis as well.

5:42

So here's what they found out. All

5:45

these studies came to the conclusion

5:47

that the stones were made up of about seventy

5:50

seven percent oxygen, twenty

5:52

percent carbon, lime,

5:54

Some traces of silicone and

5:56

other materials that were unidentified

5:59

were also found in it. One of the researchers

6:01

said, The composition makes

6:03

the Skystones similar to a kind

6:06

of concrete or stucco and

6:08

seems to have been artificially colored.

6:10

The natives living in the area where

6:12

the stone was found already knew about

6:15

its existence because the stone like artifact

6:17

used to pop out during digs

6:20

in the area. Now,

6:22

more preliminary tests were done

6:24

with x rays It was determined

6:26

that the blue Pitoni was composed mainly

6:28

of calcium hydroxide, calcium

6:31

carbonate, and calcium silicate.

6:34

And if that wasn't wild enough, none

6:36

of these tests were able to explain

6:39

how the stone got that blue color again.

6:41

Scientists speculated that copper

6:44

or some other transition material

6:46

could be responsible for the color

6:48

of it. But they were unable to detect

6:51

any materials in sufficient

6:53

quantities to confirm that theory.

6:56

Then they did plasma spectometry,

6:59

and they did an analysis that way, and

7:01

they reduced the oxygen level to fifty

7:04

out of a hundred or fifty five out of

7:06

a hundred at the most, which

7:08

is apparently normal in

7:10

any rock. All these other

7:12

weird things started popping up about these stones

7:15

too. So they

7:17

submitted the stone to

7:19

gas chromatography which

7:22

tried to locate an organic compound

7:24

in the rock, and they were looking for

7:26

some sort of ink that gives Skystones

7:29

its blue color. So researchers

7:31

then decided to crush one piece of

7:33

the rock, and they mixed it with

7:36

acetone, hexane, and methylene

7:38

and enhanced the extractions with

7:40

ultrasound. Finally, the

7:43

researchers were able to detect

7:45

an organic compound, but

7:47

that compound was unknown to

7:50

science. The Skystones

7:52

does in fact have a non

7:54

mineral element in its composition.

7:57

But that doesn't really tell us much because

7:59

that element is unknown. The

8:02

organic compound present in the sky

8:04

rock is believed to be

8:06

between fifteen thousand and

8:08

fifty five thousand years old.

8:11

And that's when it was ruled out that the stone

8:13

was a fraud. Because the molecular

8:16

formula of this rock cannot

8:18

be traced back to anything we

8:20

know on earth. Carbon

8:22

dating revealed that the age of the

8:24

stones was found to be between

8:26

twenty five hundred and seventeen thousand

8:29

years old. And even weirder

8:31

than that, these stones

8:33

are always found in soil

8:35

layers dating back to

8:38

at least twelve thousand BC.

8:41

Now, due to the weird composition

8:44

and the really unique look of it,

8:47

these stones became super valuable

8:49

in the market. They also appeared

8:51

at a weekend market in

8:53

Marrakesh Morocco and they

8:55

were called kryptonite. There

8:57

is some skepticism behind

8:59

the identity of Pitoni. Some

9:02

online source do say that he was

9:04

a self proclaimed botanist, a

9:07

gemstone expert, honored and

9:09

decorated special forces operative

9:12

a guy who discovered Mayan statues

9:15

and he was linked to other

9:17

archaeological sites. But his

9:19

credibility has really doubted because

9:22

nobody could find out what

9:25

universities or institutes he

9:27

was actually linked to. Then

9:29

the story starts to revolve around

9:31

an American artist and designer by

9:34

the name of Jared Collins. In

9:36

two thousand thirteen, Jared Collins

9:39

was on a trip in Asia, and he was in search

9:41

of some rare gems and minerals, and

9:43

he met a gem dealer in Hong Kong.

9:46

Collins called the dealer and asked him to pay a

9:48

visit to his small apartment. And

9:50

after searching like hundreds of bags

9:53

of just full of gems, Like

9:55

nothing surprised him. It was all shit that

9:57

he had really seen before until

9:59

he saw this weird shaped

10:02

rock with white veins running

10:04

through it. And here's how Collins

10:06

described it. It was

10:08

a curious thing with a very

10:10

pretty blue color And when

10:13

I picked up the stone to examine it, it

10:15

was strangely light for its size,

10:17

and I thought it was some sort of a synthesized

10:19

or hybrid wax or plastic

10:22

material, yet it simultaneously

10:25

appeared to be a natural stone of

10:27

some kind. It was perplexing, and

10:29

I had no idea what I was looking at,

10:32

and I had no point of reference to compare

10:34

it to anything else I had previously seen

10:36

or handled before. It's

10:39

fucking wild. Right? So

10:41

this Hong Kong dealer tells

10:44

Collins this strange story

10:46

of how the rocks fell from

10:48

the sky. You know, the same story

10:50

that Patoni heard. They

10:52

even sent a sample of Iraq to

10:55

Swiss labs where they were tested by a guy

10:57

named doctor Priti. They

10:59

waited for fucking months for these

11:01

results to come back, and the doctor

11:03

could not say anything really.

11:05

He didn't know much about it. And

11:07

he concluded that the sample

11:10

belonged to some kind of unidentified

11:12

material. So Collins is like,

11:15

I wanna fucking buy a piece of this. And

11:17

the dealer's like, no, it's

11:20

not for sale. As it turns

11:22

out, the Skystones was the only

11:24

thing in the room that day that was

11:26

not going to be made available

11:28

for sale. And with

11:30

Jared Collins, it was the only fucking

11:32

thing that he was interested in. That was the

11:34

only thing he wanted to walk out of there with.

11:37

He got nothing. So after he leaves

11:39

Hong Kong, he can't stop

11:42

thinking about the Skystones. He

11:44

tried to find the stone in some other

11:46

places so he could get it

11:49

and obtain, like, more information on

11:51

it, but he failed. The only place

11:53

where the stone was known to exist publicly

11:56

was that Eric Van Donneken's Museum

11:59

called the Mystery Park in Switzerland. So

12:02

he gets a hold of the museum and he wrote a letter

12:04

to buy a small piece off

12:06

of one of their two large stones.

12:09

They rejected him. So

12:11

Collins is like getting fucking desperate

12:13

about this right now. So he ends up

12:15

getting a hold of that gem dealer in

12:17

Hong Kong again. And

12:20

tries to get him to sell him the stone

12:22

again. And they exchanged

12:25

bunch of emails and phone calls and

12:27

Collins made a proposal to the

12:30

dealer, and he accepted it.

12:32

So he sent the small cutaway

12:34

piece which was the one

12:36

that was previously sent to doctor Priti

12:39

for examination. He sent

12:41

that to Collins with all the information

12:43

that he had about it. The Gem

12:45

dealer wrote in his letter that

12:47

he had received this piece from an

12:49

Italian man named Vige.

12:52

He said, I heard that story from

12:54

Vishay and I asked him

12:57

if he could sell me a few pieces from

12:59

whatever he had remaining. His

13:01

friend had visited that professor Pitoni

13:04

directly in Italy upon hearing of

13:06

the existence of the which had

13:08

been collected by that professor. I

13:11

bought several fragments and sold

13:13

all but the remaining two pieces you saw

13:15

at my house, including the

13:17

small cutaway which you now possess.

13:20

So Collins is like, okay, who's this

13:22

fucking Vishay guy? He

13:25

tracked this dude down and got a hold of him

13:27

through email. And Vishay told

13:29

him that the piece of stone had first

13:31

been discovered by Angelo Pitoni when

13:33

he was in Sierra Leone. Valet

13:36

wrote to Collins, and here's what he said.

13:39

A local shaman then brought him

13:41

to a place where there were some pieces

13:43

of this blue material on the ground. Digging

13:46

into the ground, Pitoni found over

13:49

two hundred kilograms of it, which was

13:51

not in a natural formation, but

13:53

rather set in a pyramid shape.

13:56

I was later shown photocopies of

13:58

a report from a geologist stating

14:00

that the material could not be identified.

14:04

Fucking strange. Right? So

14:06

Collins decided to take this shit to the

14:08

max with that small little piece that he had.

14:11

Over the course of five years, this

14:14

stone was studied by universities, independent

14:17

scientists, and laboratories. And

14:20

nobody could identify the

14:22

origin and the creation mechanism

14:25

of the sky stone. Fucking

14:28

wild. Right? Let

14:31

me state this couple sources real quick.

14:33

You got time for disclosure, archaeology

14:35

world dot com, project yourself dot

14:37

com. And I mean, there's a shitload of

14:39

other sources, but they all pretty

14:42

much say the same damn thing. Like,

14:44

there's really not much you can say about it because

14:46

they don't even know what the fuck these

14:48

are made of or how they're even blue.

14:51

They found an organic compound, but

14:53

it's not from Earth. It's an

14:55

unknown fucking material, so

14:58

don't know. Not bad little bonus episode.

15:00

It's pretty damn interesting. I thought, yeah,

15:02

anyway. I hope you guys enjoyed

15:04

that. And until next time, I

15:06

will see you later.

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