The Lost Civilization of Agartha Found in the Gobi Desert

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The Gobi Desert keeps surprising scientists. Strange underground structures and legends point to a lost civilization called Agartha. Some researchers think ancient tunnels and ruins hint at something massive hiding below the sand. In this video, we explore the evidence, the myths, and why archaeologists are suddenly paying attention. This might be history’s strangest rediscovery yet.  Animation is created by Bright Side.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/   Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV  Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Our Social Media:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightplanet/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official  TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en   Stock materials (photos, footages and other):  https://www.depositphotos.com  https://www.shutterstock.com  https://www.eastnews.ru  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This video is made for entertainment purposes. We do not make any warranties about the completeness, safety and reliability. Any action you take upon the information in this video is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any damages or losses. It is the viewer's responsibility to use judgement, care and precaution if you plan to replicate.

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00:00You're walking down the street.

00:02You see a strange-looking antique shop called Ageless Trinkets of Mr. Bright.

00:08You're curious, so you enter there.

00:10You take a look at all the weird stuff.

00:13Suddenly, an old folded parchment paper catches your attention.

00:17It's a world map, but something's off with it.

00:21Instead of showing the countries as you know them,

00:24it shows the locations of four mythical lost worlds and civilizations.

00:28Mr. Bright, the shop owner, comes next to you after realizing your shock.

00:34This map won't let you find these places or anything,

00:38but I can explain to you the legends behind them if you want.

00:43He says,

00:44Let me begin with Atlantis.

00:47You might know it as Aquaman's underwater kingdom,

00:51but Atlantis, the fictional island, was actually first introduced in two of Plato's works.

00:57According to him, Atlantis was a highly advanced civilization that existed about 9,000 years

01:04before his own time, and its story had been passed down by poets, authors, and others.

01:10He wrote about Atlantis and its citizens to give a moral lesson and to teach about the dangers of

01:16arrogance as well as the eventual downfall of those who are after too much power.

01:21In his dialogues, Plato stated that Atlantis was a great and powerful empire

01:28that was respected in all parts of the world.

01:31It was founded by beings who were half deities and half human

01:35and became a great naval power after a while.

01:38Being an island filled with gold, silver, and other precious metals certainly helped their case.

01:43But besides that, it was also known for its breathtaking architecture

01:48and state-of-the-art technology, as well as its countless rare and exotic wild animals.

01:55Atlanteans were proud of their great achievements and the perfection of their civilization,

01:59but their excessive pride was going to bring their downfall.

02:03They believed they were so superior that they could gain control over any nation.

02:08This led them to launch a series of invasions.

02:11They conquered many of the Mediterranean lands, but when it was time to enter Athens,

02:16Athenians pushed back with an extraordinary force, so the Atlanteans were finally defeated.

02:23Plato stated that deities then got angry at Atlanteans because of how wicked, greedy, and immoral they became.

02:31So they punished them by sending earthquakes, which caused Atlantis to sink beneath the sea.

02:37Although the earliest written records of Atlantis were Plato's works,

02:42some people still believed his story to be based on truth,

02:46and tried to identify the island of Atlantis with actual countries.

02:50Some people suggested it may have been located in the Mediterranean Sea,

02:54near the coast of Spain or Italy.

02:57Others thought it may have been located in the Caribbean,

03:00off the coast of Central or South America.

03:02But there was no solid evidence to support any of these claims.

03:08One theory, in particular, seemed more plausible than the others, though.

03:12Located in the Aegean Sea, the island of Santorini was the home of a highly advanced Minoan society.

03:19However, due to a huge volcanic eruption, it was destroyed about 3,600 years ago,

03:25causing the Minoan civilization to suddenly disappear.

03:28These similarities between the fictional Atlanteans and the historical Minoans

03:33made Santorini a good candidate for the speculations.

03:38Yet again, there were still major flaws with it,

03:41such as how the time when Plato said Atlantis was destroyed

03:43doesn't coincide with the time of Santorini's eruption.

03:47So Atlantis still continues to be regarded

03:50as nothing more than a popular legend in the scientific world.

03:53Now, let's move toward the northeast direction on the map, Mr. Bright says.

04:02According to Celtic Brayton mythology,

04:05there once was a magnificent city called Yis,

04:08also known as Caris,

04:10that towered over Duarnanay Bay in France's Brittany region.

04:14It was the most wealthy city in the entire Atlantic.

04:17It was especially famous for its beautiful gardens and buildings,

04:21and its citizens were all living comfortably and happily there.

04:26Dahout, who was King Bradlawn's daughter in Brayton legends and literature,

04:31had a deep love for the sea.

04:33She begged her father to build a city at the edge of the sea,

04:37and that is how the city of Yis was established.

04:41Little did she know that she would be the one responsible

04:43for the destruction of her father's beloved gift.

04:46You see, since the city was surrounded by the sea,

04:51it needed to be protected by a dike equipped with floodgates,

04:55and these gates could only be opened at low tide.

04:58And the only one who had the keys to these gates was the king himself.

05:04One day, a handsome red knight arrived at the city,

05:08but couldn't pass the gates.

05:10Dahout was so taken by him that she wanted to let him in.

05:14She knew that her father was the keeper of the only key to the city,

05:18so she sneaked into his room and stole it from him.

05:21Then she gave it to the red knight so that he could enter the city

05:24and they could be together.

05:26However, the red knight turned out to be the prince of darkness,

05:30and he intentionally left the gate open to the raging sea.

05:35The wave soon swallowed all of Yis.

05:38King Gradlawn was able to escape on his magical horse,

05:41but Dahout couldn't.

05:43She turned into an evil mermaid who lured sailors into the sea.

05:49Today, if you go to Quimper, a city in Brittany, northwest France,

05:54you can find the statue of King Gradlawn riding on his horse.

05:59Although the city of Yis is a legend,

06:01Brittany coast locals believe that on the days when the waters are calm,

06:05you can still hear the tolls of the city bells deep under the sea.

06:10If you listen carefully.

06:13Mr. Bright then points at the Indian Ocean on the map and says,

06:17Now, have you heard about Lemuria?

06:21Back in the mid-1800s,

06:24a few scientists suggested that there was once a continent

06:27that existed in the Indian Ocean,

06:29somewhere close to the south of modern-day Sri Lanka.

06:32The first one to popularize this theory

06:34was the British lawyer and zoologist Philip Lutley-Sclater.

06:39In his paper,

06:40The Mammals of Madagascar,

06:42he stated that he found lemur fossils in India and not in Africa.

06:46However, this discovery was extremely shocking to him

06:50because of the fact that lemur's original homeland,

06:53Madagascar,

06:54is much closer to Africa.

06:57He proposed that this was possible

06:58only if some larger continent connected the two once.

07:02He stated that this continent

07:04must have eventually sunk to the ocean floor.

07:07He then named it Lemuria,

07:09and hence,

07:10the theory was born.

07:13People who came after Sclater

07:15took his theory a step further

07:16and thought that Lemuria

07:18was also the home of an extinct race of humans

07:21called Lemurians,

07:23who had four arms and enormous bodies,

07:25and were also the ancestors of modern-day humans

07:28as well as lemurs.

07:32Of course,

07:32as new scientific discoveries

07:34were made on plate tectonics,

07:36evolution,

07:37and the study of DNA,

07:39the theories regarding the fictional continent

07:41called Lemuria

07:41were debunked.

07:44The last fictional land on the map

07:46is Agartha,

07:48Mr. Bright says.

07:51Taking its roots from eastern mysticism,

07:53one legend says

07:55there's a kingdom called Agartha

07:57that is located deep beneath

07:59the surface of the Earth.

08:01It's where all four corners of the world

08:03are connected by paths and tunnels.

08:06It is said that there's a secret entrance

08:08into Agartha

08:09hidden in the Gobi Desert,

08:11and it's built by Agarthans themselves

08:13using advanced technology

08:15that can't be detected by us,

08:17the surface folks.

08:20According to some beliefs,

08:21Agartha exists to counterbalance

08:24the energies of those

08:25who live above the surface.

08:27While we live in a state of rush

08:29and heightened emotions,

08:31this world beneath us

08:32is the total opposite.

08:34Some even say that

08:35those who escaped Atlantis

08:36fled here

08:37to continue their lives

08:39inside the Earth's core.

08:41And yet,

08:42others think it's actually a land

08:44that's crawling

08:44with all kinds of monsters.

08:48But there's no need to be scared,

08:50since modern science proved

08:52Earth's core

08:52is not actually hollow

08:54and is a solid hot iron ball.

08:57So you can cancel

08:58your journey plans

08:59to the center of the Earth

09:00if you've made any.

09:01Thanks, Mr. Bright!

09:02In July 1990,

09:06four Czech guys

09:07decided to go on an adventure

09:09to find the Mongolian death worm,

09:11a creature that might have inspired

09:13the monster you've seen

09:14in the movie Doom.

09:15They say it lives somewhere deep

09:17in the Gobi Desert.

09:18So they flew to Mongolia,

09:20hopped into an ATV,

09:22and hired some local guides

09:23to help them.

09:24All that to meet a creature

09:25that is up to 6 feet long,

09:27can spit acid

09:28that could melt anything,

09:30and is capable of shooting

09:31electricity at those

09:32it doesn't like.

09:34Legend says that

09:36these friendly guys

09:37spend most of their days

09:38hiding underneath

09:39the sandy dunes.

09:40But they'd like to come out

09:42during the wetter months

09:43of June and July.

09:44So the timing for a spotting

09:46was simply perfect.

09:48But the crew needed to figure out

09:49how to lure the creature.

09:51Sadly for them,

09:53no one knew

09:54what the giant worm liked to eat.

09:56So they built a thumper,

09:57which is a machine

09:58that made rhythmic pounding noises.

10:00They were hoping

10:01it would call the worm

10:02out of the ground.

10:03For two months,

10:04they searched the vast desert,

10:06crossing dunes

10:07and rocky plains,

10:08looking for any sign

10:09of the creature.

10:11But, alas,

10:12it didn't really work out.

10:14Ivan McCurley,

10:15who was the leader

10:16of the 1990 expedition,

10:18came back to Gobi Desert again.

10:20He once tried to attract

10:21the megaworm with blasts,

10:23and the second time

10:24he used a small airplane

10:25to scout the dunes.

10:26Over the years,

10:27groups from America,

10:29Britain,

10:29and New Zealand

10:30organized big expeditions

10:32to the Gobi Desert

10:33to try and find the creature.

10:35Many others came from

10:36all around the world

10:37on their own

10:37and found nothing.

10:40The people in the West

10:41first found out

10:42about the megaworm

10:43of the Gobi Desert

10:44thanks to an American

10:45paleontologist,

10:47Roy Chapman Andrews.

10:48This brave man

10:49was probably the inspiration

10:51for Indiana Jones.

10:52In 1926,

10:54he wrote about the creature

10:55in his book.

10:57At a meeting

10:57with Mongolian leaders,

10:59Andrews heard

11:00detailed descriptions

11:01of the creature,

11:02even though none of them

11:03had ever seen it themselves.

11:05One of them described it

11:06as looking like a sausage,

11:08about two feet long,

11:09with no head or legs.

11:11According to him,

11:12the worm was so venomous

11:14that just touching it

11:15could instantly take your life,

11:17and it lived in the loneliest parts

11:18of the Gobi Desert.

11:20Andrews didn't think

11:21the creature was real,

11:22but he shared these stories

11:23again in another book.

11:27In May 2005,

11:30four friends from Great Britain

11:31who searched for monsters

11:32professionally

11:33decided to try their luck.

11:35They made drawings of the worm

11:36and hired local people

11:38to hand out flyers

11:39all over the Gobi Desert.

11:41These flyers offered a reward

11:43to anyone who could give

11:44information about the worm

11:45or even bring them a specimen.

11:48They thought loud sounds

11:49that other explorers tried

11:51would scare the beast away.

11:53Some told them

11:54it likes damp conditions,

11:56so they came up with a plan

11:57to block streams of water

11:58to create wet areas

12:00that would lure the worm out.

12:02Their plan didn't work

12:03because it was too hard

12:05to build dams in the desert.

12:07They ended up using small traps,

12:09but didn't find any actual proof

12:11that the worm existed.

12:12But they did meet locals

12:14who shared interesting stories

12:15about strange creatures

12:16they had seen over 70 years.

12:19Over the years,

12:20stories of the monster

12:21spread around the world.

12:23In some of them,

12:24it's only one foot long.

12:26In others,

12:26it's as large as a human.

12:28It's white-gray

12:29or scaly and brown,

12:31or maybe fleshy

12:32and bright red.

12:34Someone said it resembled a snake,

12:36or maybe a caterpillar,

12:37or maybe it has wings

12:38and can fly.

12:40And some believe

12:41it could be a supernatural evil being

12:43without a body.

12:46Maybe the stories are so different,

12:48and the search operations

12:50are so fruitless,

12:51because the creature

12:52doesn't even exist.

12:53Or it could be

12:55one of many cryptids.

12:57Those creatures like Bigfoot,

12:58Yeti,

12:59the Loch Ness Monster,

13:00their existence

13:01has yet to be proven.

13:03In 1983,

13:04one scientist

13:05who was visiting the region

13:06heard that an old man

13:08had managed to catch

13:09the mysterious worm.

13:11He also learned

13:11there was a nest nearby.

13:13The scientist

13:14bravely approached

13:15the hole in the sand

13:16and put his hand inside.

13:18A giant creature

13:19dragged him in,

13:20and he was never seen again.

13:22Eh, just kidding.

13:23He actually found

13:24a tartar sand boa inside.

13:27It's a chunky,

13:28burrowing,

13:28non-venomous snake

13:29that has small eyes

13:31and gray-brown scales.

13:32He showed it to the locals

13:34to verify

13:34if it was the monster,

13:36and supposedly,

13:37all of them said yes.

13:38Most Mongolians

13:39who know about the worm

13:40still believe it's real.

13:43Now,

13:44even though people

13:44call our supposed monster

13:46a worm,

13:47it's just what it sounds like

13:48in the English translation.

13:50Many Mongol cultures

13:51have used this word

13:52for centuries

13:53to refer to any animals

13:55they thought

13:55to be really dangerous,

13:57especially snakes,

13:58even non-venomous ones.

14:00So,

14:01it doesn't have to be

14:02a literal worm,

14:03after all.

14:04Worms are soft

14:05and squishy,

14:05but a creature

14:06living in the harsh

14:07Gobi desert

14:08would need to be tougher,

14:10more like a snake

14:11or a type of lizard

14:12without legs.

14:13Neither of these creatures

14:14can shoot electricity

14:15or spit acid

14:16like they say

14:17the death worm does.

14:18But,

14:19some snakes,

14:20like cobras,

14:21can spit venom

14:22that's dangerous for people.

14:24If it were real,

14:25the creature

14:25would have a backbone,

14:27and explorers

14:28searching for it

14:28would likely find

14:29some bones

14:30or evidence

14:31left behind.

14:32And,

14:33there are actually

14:33fossil remains

14:34all over the Gobi desert.

14:36Scientists found

14:37representatives

14:38of over 80 dino groups

14:40here

14:40over the last

14:41almost 100 years.

14:42It all started

14:43with the world's

14:44first dinosaur egg nests.

14:46This discovery

14:47changed all the scientists

14:48knew about dinos.

14:50It was the first proof

14:51they laid eggs.

14:52In the following two years,

14:54the same expedition team

14:55unearthed over 100 dinosaurs

14:58and took them

14:58to the American Museum

14:59of Natural History,

15:01where you can still

15:02see them today.

15:03Some of them

15:04were swimming around

15:05in the Cretaceous Sea

15:06that used to be here

15:07about 71 million years ago.

15:09They resembled

15:10modern birds.

15:12The mystery of the megaworm

15:13is still unsolved,

15:15but there used to be

15:16another mystery

15:17scientists finally

15:18managed to explain.

15:20Back in the 13th century,

15:21a famous traveler,

15:22Marco Polo,

15:24not the guy

15:24from the swimming pool game,

15:26crossed the Gobi Desert.

15:27He thought he could hear

15:28mysterious noises,

15:29like the sounds

15:30of musical instruments,

15:32such as drums.

15:33He wrote about it

15:34in his book

15:34and believed he might be

15:36hearing the voices

15:37of restless spirits.

15:39Scientists call these noises

15:40singing sands

15:41or booming sands.

15:43Unlike the squeaky sound

15:44you might hear

15:45when walking

15:45on a sandy beach,

15:47these desert sounds

15:48are much louder,

15:49like a musical instrument

15:50playing deep,

15:51haunting notes.

15:53Over the years,

15:54people came up

15:54with all kinds of ideas

15:56about what caused

15:57the sounds,

15:58like underground water

15:59or winds making

16:00the sand vibrate.

16:02Not all dunes can do this,

16:03and scientists wanted

16:04to figure out why.

16:06Sometimes,

16:06the winds might cause

16:08a small avalanche

16:09on the side of a dune,

16:10and then you can hear

16:11the magical sound start.

16:13But this is rare.

16:14So, to study it,

16:16scientists had to help

16:17the dunes sing.

16:18They climbed to the top

16:19of a dune

16:20and slid down

16:21on their backs,

16:22using their hands

16:23and feet to push sand down.

16:25As the sand tumbled,

16:26the sound started softly

16:28and got louder.

16:29They could even feel

16:30the vibrations

16:31with their hands.

16:32So, they found out

16:33that for a dune to sing,

16:35a few special things

16:36need to happen.

16:38The grains of sand

16:39must be the right shape,

16:40the dune has to be big,

16:42and the sand must be very dry.

16:45So, no singing

16:46after it rains.

16:47Inside the dune,

16:48there's a hard layer

16:49of packed sand

16:50that acts like

16:51a giant speaker.

16:52This layer bounces

16:53the sound waves

16:54back and forth,

16:55makes the noise

16:56louder and louder,

16:57and creates a haunting melody

16:59that can fill

17:00the desert air.

17:01In other words,

17:02the dunes can play tunes.

17:05Yeah, sorry,

17:05I couldn't help myself

17:06with that one.

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