Scientists Can't Explain These Creepy 3000 Year Old Statues That Hum

Hi, it's Katrina. There are 3,000-year-old statues in Egypt that apparently hum and can make your skin crawl. Hundreds of these statues were mutilated by the ancients, as if they were trying to kill something that refused to stay dead. But the mystery doesn't stop there. We are tracing invisible energy pathways and secret scrolls that have just been discovered. Here are some amazing ancient Egyptian mysteries you won't want to miss. I wanted to give a big thank you to NordVPN for sponsoring today's video. I love using NordVPN because to make the content that I make, I have to do a lot of research and read a lot of articles. But sometimes when I'm traveling, I can't access certain US sites because of different privacy laws. Whenever this happens, I can just use NordVPN and access the information I need to keep making videos for you guys. And not only can you access information from your home country, but also your streaming services. 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They think that breaking the hands and damaging the face may have been a way to destroy the living energy within a statue. Others, mainly people on Reddit, think the anomalies give the statues a more alien appearance, alluding to some otherworldly intervention. People that have been to Egypt and shared their experiences on social media report the statues have been caught moving, causing camera malfunctions, glowing, and buzzing with a strange energy. But who is the goddess Sekhmet? Sekhmet is a solar deity, sometimes known as the Eye of Ra. In Egyptian mythology, she is the daughter of the sun god Ra and one of the most important goddesses in the whole pantheon. She is a warrior goddess, deity of medicine, and has some remarkable abilities that I kind of wish I had. For example, Sekhmet can breathe fire. If she's not in the mood to burn you to a cinder, she can deliver plagues. The Egyptians used to call on Sekhmet during times of disease and sickness, begging for her protection from whatever was ravaging the common folk. She was the bringer of disease, but also the cure. Just like how a snake bite can kill you, but at the same time its venom can make anti-venom that saves you. There are a lot of different myths surrounding Sekhmet, but I'd like to talk about one in particular. At the end of Ra's earthly rule, he sent the goddess Hathor in the form of Sekhmet to destroy all the mortals who conspired against him. This is all part of the Egyptian origin myth, which claims before the pharaohs, Egypt was ruled by the actual gods. This lasted a few thousand years until Ra got sick and tired of humans always messing with him. He was an omnipotent deity, and he was sick to death of these sinful, unruly humans. So he decided to punish them. What Ra hadn't counted on was Sekhmet's unquenchable bloodlust. The goddess went to destroy the mortals, but she could not satisfy her hunger for violence. She unleashed herself, taking out her bloody rage on all of humanity until human civilization came crumbling down. Her anger and rampage became such a problem that Ra and the other gods had to hatch a plan to stop her before she destroyed them too. So they filled a lake entirely with beer and then dyed it red to make it look like blood. Sekhmet saw the huge pool of blood and drank it all in her insane bloodlust. She got so drunk that she gave up her violence and chilled out. Sekhmet also had a pretty substantial family. She was the sister of the cat goddess Bastet, she was the mother of the war god Maes, and she was the wife of Ptah, the creator god and patron deity of craftsmen. This feline goddess was so important to the Egyptians that she had her cult following. Every year, during the festival of intoxication, the Egyptians would dance, play music, and drink massive amounts of beer. The festival was aimed at calming the goddess' rage. Only through ritual dance and extreme drunkenness could her wrath be postponed. Egyptians believed that if they didn't partake in this festival, which was essentially one massive rave, civilization would be destroyed. Now let's talk about the statues. During the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep III from 1390 to 1352 BC, over 700 Sekhmet statues were carved. No one knows exactly why so many of them were created during the roughly 40 years of Amenhotep's rule, but there is a really strong theory. Remember how I told you that people would pray to Sekhmet for healing? All of these statues may have been one giant prayer by the Pharaoh to be healed from some illness that was plaguing him. Archaeologists believe there were a total of 730 statues built, equaling two statues every single day for a year. Amenhotep may have been incredibly sick, believing the only way to beat his illness was by giving as much praise to the warrior goddess as he could. To pump out this many statues, the Pharaoh must have had factories working across Egypt. Over 57 types of grandeurite have been found in the statues, suggesting they were crafted all over the country. They also vary in shape, size, and style, proving that it was not the same sculptor. But what about the anomalies? Why have so many visitors to Egyptian museums experienced physical sensations while viewing the statues? People have reported their hair standing on end. They've also felt weird buzzing coming from the statue, almost as if it's vibrating. Others have claimed to see it change color, smile, or even shift position. Cameras stop working sometimes, or produce completely black photos. There have been human-like shapes witnessed next to the statue, like phantoms or ghosts. These specters are typically attributed to slow shutter speeds in dark environments, but I can't rule out the supernatural. What isn't up for debate is how mutilated many of the statues are. They have had their heads or hands smashed, and that's an important clue. In ancient Egypt, they believed that statues held power. Not just statues of gods, but of people too. It was fairly common practice for one Egyptian pharaoh to break the faces of their predecessor's statue. It was done to take away any power that a dead pharaoh might still have in the real world. It was also a way to scrub them from history, erasing them with a sledgehammer. Perhaps the reason Sekhmet's face was smashed was because someone wanted to erase whatever mark Amenhotep III left on Egypt. Or maybe they were smashed as a way to try and calm Sekhmet's bloodlust in a time of war. No one really knows. And that's kind of the bottom line. Nobody knows what the anomalies are all about. Maybe there is power inside these statues. Some wispy fragment of an extinct war goddess who desperately wants her power back. If you or you know has experienced anything unusual while viewing one of these statues, please share it in the comments. I would love to hear. Egypt's Ancient Energy Pathways There is said to be a great amount of energy buried underground. This energy is naturally produced by the planet, flowing beneath our feet along pathways known as ley lines. When you trace these mysterious lines, they seem to connect the ancient monuments of the world, not just in Egypt but in every single country on the planet. In Egypt specifically, all of your favorite monuments are seated directly on ley lines. The Great Pyramid of Giza, the Sphinx, the Temple of Karnak, Abu Simbel, the Temple of Hatshepsut, and countless others. They are on a straight trajectory following a very clear path. It's just not a path you can see from the ground. You need an eye in the sky. Now, I know what you're thinking. Of course, these monuments follow a line because they were built up and down the Nile. But when you line up these monuments with other ancient structures around the globe, they follow the same path. Ley lines don't stop in Egypt, they circumnavigate the globe. These lines intersect with Stonehenge and Machu Picchu, suggesting that ancient civilizations built their monuments on these lines on purpose. But why? Did they gather energy from ley lines? Could pyramids and other structures have been used to concentrate or even store that energy? Were temples built upon ley lines because priests could draw from that power source to better commune with the gods? To find out if there is any credibility to the theory, I should take you back to the beginning. In the 1920s, photographer and archaeology enthusiast Alfred Watkins made an unusual discovery. He noticed that if he connected ancient sites in the UK, they all seemed to be following the same pathways. Watkins thought the ancient people constructed important sites in a linear pattern across Britain for navigational purposes. He didn't think anything paranormal, he just thought it made sense that they built their monuments along known paths. That way, they could easily move from one site to the next without getting lost. Somewhere along the line. Or maybe I should say somewhere along the ley line, others hijacked Watkins' idea. Other interested parties started to embellish his theory, saying the lines carried powerful energy. To be honest, things got a little out of control. People began to say that ley lines carried psychic power which ancient shamans could tap into. And others claimed that ley lines are associated with UFO landings, or that they have healing properties. One of those embellishers was John Mitchell, an author who wrote a book about Atlantis in 1969. He argued that all ancient earthworks and stone monuments were designed in accordance with one worldwide system of geometry, which he claimed came from the Atlantis civilization. Graham Hancock has suggested the exact same thing, just in different words. Graham has said that when Atlantis was destroyed, its survivors fled to different parts of the world, taking their knowledge of architecture and engineering with them. John Mitchell thought the same thing, but with a twist. John believed that Atlantis was the primary source of knowledge and wisdom in the world. They were a global civilization, which is why so many ancient monuments look similar. Although there were different cultures, they all followed the same rough guidelines for building passed down from the lords of Atlantis. Those guidelines meant that structures needed to be built on energy lines. Do you know who else believed in ley lines? Nikola Tesla, that's who! There are over 4,000 ancient sites of both historical and spiritual importance on the planetary ley line grid system, which you can see here circa 1983. The sites include the megaliths of Zimbabwe, ruins in Algeria, the Wharton Basin at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, Karachi and the ancient city of Mohenjo-Daro, the South Pole, the North Pole, Easter Island, the Bermuda Triangle, you know what I mean, and I need to stop because I'm going to run out of breath. The Irish knew of these mysterious energy lines and called them fairy paths, the Germans called them holy lines, the Chinese referred to them as dragon currents, and the Greeks knew them as the sacred roads of Hermes. Why did ancient cultures know about ley lines while people who believe in them today are called crazy? Even Plato, the guy who told us about Atlantis, mentioned a planetary grid system, and Nikola Tesla believed in them too. Tesla thought that there was a free source of energy running underneath the ground that could be tapped into, and he would have tapped into it too, if not for that dastardly devil Thomas Edison. According to some theories, Thomas Edison went out of his way to undermine and ruin Tesla because he wanted to sell electricity and Tesla wanted to give it away. I don't think it's a coincidence that Tesla theorized the pyramids of Egypt were gigantic energy transmitters. He thought the pyramids were once used to distribute wireless energy as part of a vast global power network. He was convinced that earth's own electric properties can be harnessed for unlimited free energy. Tesla even modeled his own wireless towers after the pyramids, hoping to emulate the Egyptians. But in the end, Tesla never managed to prove a thing. And then when he died, Trump stole his notes. Yes, I said Trump. John G. Trump, the uncle of Donald J. Trump, was the man tasked with going through Tesla's papers after his death. He ultimately concluded that there was nothing of scientific value in Tesla's documents. John Trump had been given this task by the FBI, partially because they were worried about the death ray particle beam that In the end, many of Tesla's files vanished and have never been recovered. The FBI originally stole 80 trunks filled with Tesla's notes and belongings. When a U.S. court finally declared in 1952 that Tesla's files must be returned to Belgrade, Serbia, only 60 of those trunks arrived. Where are the other 20 trunks? Why is the FBI, the Trump family, and Nikola Tesla all rolled up in ancient energy pyramids, death rays, and ley lines? How far does this conspiracy go? Let me know your thoughts on this. Interesting or a little too crazy? What destroyed the city of the sun god? Thousands of years ago, the heretic king Akhenaten flipped Egypt upside down. When Akhenaten came into power, he decided it would be fun to announce the eradication of the ancient gods who had been worshipped for eons. In their place, everyone would worship one god, Aten, the sun god. Let's just say it didn't work out. Akhenaten founded a brand new city, which he named Amarna, to be the capital of his new monotheistic Egypt. When Akhenaten eventually died, his city kept going long after he was gone, but it didn't last forever. For decades, scientists have told us that Amarna collapsed because of a plague that spread through the city. It's one of Egypt's greatest mysteries that you don't see highlighted on late night TikToks. What really happened to Amarna? And was Akhenaten actually Moses? I know it's a lot to unpack, so let's start with the historical truths. Akhenaten came into power around 1353 BC in Egypt's 18th dynasty. When he took the throne, it was under the name Amenhotep IV. But in his fifth year as pharaoh, he changed it to better suit his new philosophy. But where exactly did he get the idea for his new philosophy? It's a huge question that has tormented historians and Egyptologists. Why did this one pharaoh suddenly decide to obliterate the gods and start his own religion? He hated the gods. There's evidence that Akhenaten dispatched agents throughout Egypt to erase images of certain gods from temple walls and scrub their names from texts. Something else happened as well during this era. Art changed in a big way, especially the appearance of royalty in artwork. Images from this era show royalty with significantly larger heads, elongated skulls, and more slender necks. The royal family became more androgynous looking. Modern historians are sometimes hardly able to tell the difference between Akhenaten and his wife, Queen Nefertiti. Why did Akhenaten try to blur the line between males and females in artwork? The pharaoh's bizarre moves culminated in the founding of Amarna, which means the place where the Aten becomes effective. Akhenaten claimed his new god had manifested itself at the site of this new city, and that he had chosen it himself. So, kind of hard to argue with a god. What happened over the next few years is murky at best. Amarna was established about five years into the king's reign, but he only ruled Egypt for another 12 years or so. It's unclear when exactly he died, or what happened to him after. When archaeologists discovered the royal tomb of Akhenaten, there was no royal burial. The tomb was there, in the ruins of Amarna, but no pharaoh. There are rumors that a mysterious skeleton found in tomb KV55 in the Valley of the Kings belongs to the pharaoh, but it's never been confirmed. The bottom line is that nobody knows why Akhenaten was so weird, how he died, or where he went after he died. And to be honest with you, a lot of people think he might have been an alien. There's no other way to put it. Akhenaten may have come from another planet. The obsession with a sun god, the elongated skulls, the mysterious disappearance. Could Akhenaten have been an alien that took over Egypt? Or, could he have been Moses? It seems crazy, but hear me out. Moses supposedly came from Egypt, right? He was bullied by the pharaoh, so he took his followers and went to a new land where they could freely practice their religion. Some have connected the dots between Moses and Akhenaten, and between Judaism and the sun god Aten. What if Akhenaten was dethroned? What if the Egyptians got so sick of this guy pushing his agenda, they finally got rid of him and forced him into exile? It's completely possible. After he was gone, whether he died or fled, his son Tutankhamen seized the throne. And what was the first thing Tutankhamen did? He restored full worship of all the old Egyptian gods, especially the chief deity Amun. And Amun was the one King Tut's father hated the most. What if the whole story of Moses and the exodus was just a disgraced king fleeing to the neighboring country with his followers to establish a new religion? Certainly something to consider. Let's get back to the destruction of Amarna. Dr. Gretchen Dabbs conducted an analysis of the city's cemeteries and found little evidence of a plague. And this was after examining almost 900 graves. There was no evidence of an epidemic, but there was a lot of evidence of social and economic stress. The people in the necropolis showed signs of hard living. They had interrupted dental enamel development and joint diseases, suggesting they weren't eating very well. They also suffered from spinal injuries, hinting at long hours of potentially forced labor. The city of Amarna was likely not devastated by any kind of epidemic. Instead, it likely suffered a slow, long, drawn out demise as Akhenaten's religion failed and the city lost its purpose. But why Akhenaten even attempted such a thing, where he got the inspiration, and where the heck his body is? These are mysteries that may never be solved. Secrets of the Scrolls. Archaeologists have found a stash of ancient scrolls from 3,000 years ago. I thought it might be nice to check out a brand new mystery, rather than one that scientists have been struggling with for decades. Archaeologists found the ancient scrolls inside a pottery vessel on the west bank of Luxor. The papyrus documents date to the Third Intermediate Period, one of the most turbulent times in Egyptian history. The period began with the death of Pharaoh Ramses XI around 1069 BC, and is characterized today by foreign rulers taking over the country and dividing Egypt. These mysterious scrolls could shed some light on what was going on in the country during this confusing and hostile era. But right now, scientists aren't opening them. They might keep them closed for a few more years. The scrolls will remain sealed until a point in time when archaeologists are confident they can open, read, and safeguard the scrolls without damaging them. After 3,000 years, it's a miracle they haven't already disintegrated. Take a look at this image of the scrolls provided by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. They look like one gust of wind away from turning into ash. Interestingly, the scrolls were tucked into the pottery vessel right beside a cache of colorful coffins. Buried in these coffins were chanters of Amun, ancient priestesses whose entire job was to hang out in the temples and sing, specifically to sing the praises of Amun, the god that Akhenaten hated. The Egyptians appeared to have maximized space within the rock-carved burial chamber by arranging the coffins into 10 horizontal rows. They even took the lids off the boxes to make more room. I have a hunch the chanters of Amun would not have been happy to know their lids were pried off so that they could be stacked like Tupperware. Sadly, the coffins don't list any names on them. Scientists don't know precisely who the chanters were, only that they were singers. Their secrets will remain in their graves, and the secrets of the scrolls will remain rolled up tight for at least a little while longer. Once the scrolls are opened and deciphered, these documents could reveal anything from the name of an unknown pharaoh to a historical event scientists don't even know about. Was the mythical green chisel a real ancient tool? It's the myth of the green chisel, an ancient artifact that could melt stone like a hot laser beam pointed at a jar of warm butter. But was this a real invention of the ancient Egyptians, allowing them to melt stone? Or is it nothing but a legend? To begin this epic investigation, let me tell you about the Mohs scale. It rates stones based on their hardness. For example, talc is the softest, a mere 1 on the Mohs scale, and diamond is at the very opposite end with a 10. So that's our baseline. Stones should not be able to be worked with a softer material. Diamond cannot be carved with anything except diamond, whereas talc can be manipulated with pretty much anything because it's so soft. I mean, they're not hard rules, but you get the gist. So stones from the 1st to the 6th degree can be carved using copper and bronze tools. Anything harder than a 6 on the Mohs scale should require something significantly harder, like iron or steel. The reason I'm telling you about this is because prior to around 1200 BC in Egypt, iron didn't exist. There was meteoric iron, extracted from space rocks, but they were used typically for royal trinkets. Iron chisels were about as common as rainbow-colored unicorns. So then how did ancient Egyptians shape stones harder than a 6 on the Mohs scale when they didn't have anything harder than a 6 to do the cutting? Do you see what I'm getting at here? Look around Egypt and you'll see examples of this everywhere. One of my favorites is the sarcophagi of the Serapium of Saqqara. Down in this dark crypt, there are monumental sarcophagi made of solid black granite weighing 70 tons. The sarcophagi weren't for humans. Supposedly, they were made for apis bulls. But forget the weight and the giant bulls for a second, which are mysteries in and of themselves. For our purposes, we're concerned with the hardness of the granite blocks. Granite is extremely hard, typically a 7 on the Mohs scale. So how did the Egyptians carve the sarcophagi with such mechanical precision if they didn't have tools capable of pulling it off? Was it just muscular strength? Were the Egyptians a bunch of bodybuilders? Did they use abrasives combined with bronze tools to pull it off? There's another option that mainstream archaeologists have completely ignored, and I need to tell you about it right now. Forget about tools, forget about drills, about abrasives, saws. What if the Egyptians used chemistry to shape the building blocks of their civilization? If the Egyptians had managed to figure out which chemicals would disintegrate which stones, they may have barely needed tools. An acidic chemical could have done most of the work for them, disintegrating something like granite to a point where they could easily drill into it with bronze or copper instruments. It also would have saved them a whole heck of a lot of time. It's a lot easier to pour acid on a rock than use a complex drilling device to slowly hope your abrasives will wear away at the granite. One option is like using dynamite to There is one corrosive substance that could have pulled this off, and that would be hydrofluoric acid, chemical symbol HF. It's considered one of the most aggressive and caustic chemicals known to science. But is there any proof the Egyptians actually used it? I hate to say it, but not really. The only proof, in quotations, comes in the form of legends, myths, and obscure texts. While you might think the evidence would be in the stone, not necessarily. If acid was used to burn holes in granite, it wasn't the end of the process. The holes would have needed to be cleaned up and shaped using bronze, which would have gotten rid of the evidence of the acid. So we turn to mythology. Ancient legends speak of a magical material that could weaken any type of stone. This mysterious material was known to the Old Ones, meaning the gods or the civilizations that came before the Egyptians. But at some point, this material was abandoned, replaced with iron, and the Egyptians forgot how to use it. There are vague descriptions in random Egyptian documents mentioning a plant mixture that could soften stone. Some plant residues have allegedly been found on the stones of the pyramids, suggesting the stones were cut using that very mixture. Further evidence for this mysterious substance can be found in the Bible. The Bible tells us that something called shamir was used to engrave the tablets of law, which you may know as the two stones containing the Ten Commandments. Moses didn't carve the tablets himself, he burned the Shamir appears throughout Jewish tradition, as well as in Christian texts, but with key differences. In the Bible, it's some sort of substance that can disintegrate any stone at all, including diamond. In the Talmud, it's a worm. Don't ask me why, but the Talmud describes shamir as a worm that can cut through stone, iron, and diamond with ease. Maybe the substance kind of seemed like a worm to those who saw it, since it ate through solid material, or maybe there's a mistranslation somewhere. But between Christian and Jewish texts, shamir serves the same purpose, regardless of whether it was a worm or a plant. It cuts stones with precision. The first one who used shamir was King Solomon, who was instructed by God to cut the stones for the Holy Temple using shamir, since iron was prohibited. Jewish text essentially lays out the fact that the Temple could not have been built with tools at the time. The only way to pull it off was with the worm. But just like the Ark of the Covenant, the worm was too powerful to be left out in the open. When it wasn't being used, it was contained inside a lead box filled with barley. Doesn't that kind of seem like something you would want to keep a caustic substance like acid in? If there was a material that could burn through rock, it had to be kept in something strong enough it couldn't burn through, possibly lead. The answer may lie far from Egypt, in Peru. I can't think of any other place on earth with stonework as mysterious as Egyptian stonework. There are legends in Peru that say when the ancients began building their megalithic structures, they used a mysterious plant called pito to cut through solid rock. Ancient tradition claims it didn't necessarily cut, but melted every stone it touched. There's a secondary story about the famous explorer Percy Fawcett, who found a strange amphora in an Inca tomb. The amphora supposedly broke, and when it did, a liquid leaked out, dissolved the stone on the ground, and disappeared. Could this have been a surviving sample of shamir, or pito, or hydrofluoric acid? It could be possible that ancient builders figured out how to extract hydrofluoric acid from plant species, especially since over 40 plants of various species have high contents of it. They absorb it from the soil and synthesize it to protect themselves from herbivores in the form of something called fluoroacetic acid. Extracting hydrofluoric acid from fluoroacetic acid is about as easy as making coffee. Boil the planted water, distill the solution, and concentrate it. So, is the green chisel real? Is the epic stonework of the ancient world really thanks to a chemical and not a tool? Or was it a worm with acidic saliva? After all, who knows what plants and worms have gone extinct in the last few thousand years? What do you think is hands down the biggest mystery in Egypt? Let me know in the comments, and thanks so much for watching! Don't forget to subscribe and come back soon for more ancient Egyptian mysteries. See you soon! Bye!