Welcome to Secrets in Stone: Exploring Humanity's Oldest Enigmas

What if the history we learned in school is only half of the story? I'm Cassie Coppersmith and welcome to Secrets in Stone. I'm here today to introduce myself in this channel. I'm a Colorado mountain dweller and adventure seeker with a background in finance and economics. My career taught me to research deeply and simplify complex ideas, skills I now use to explore ancient history. After many years working in corporate America, everything changed for me on a trip to Egypt a few years ago. Seeing the Valley Temple and Karnak with these massive granite blocks and stone artifacts with impossible precision, I began to realize what I was looking at was difficult to explain using the information I had learned in school. I couldn't help but wonder, how did they build something so massive, so complex, and so perfect? And more importantly, why? That moment sparked a bit of an obsession for me. I dove down the rabbit hole, visiting sites in Peru, Bolivia, England, Cambodia, and more, researching endlessly to try to understand our past. On Secrets in Stone, we'll explore these incredible places. Some I've visited, others we'll research together. Each episode, I'll share photos, dive into the history, and tackle the big questions. What do these sites reveal about our forgotten past? I'm inspired by and want to acknowledge the researchers who have come before me, and who have taught me so much. Graham Hancock, of course, Ben at Uncharted X, Cliff at Earth Ancients, Hugh at Megalithomania, and a special shout out to Derek Olson at Megalithic Marbles. My guest appearance on his show earlier this year inspired me to start this channel. The history we're taught says that we emerged from caves, hunted and gathered, planted crops, and ultimately developed monuments, slowly reaching our pinnacle today. This story is easy to accept if you don't think about it too hard. It's also comfortable. We were never as advanced as we are today. Things today are better now than they were in the past. But what if there's more to the story? What if there's a different explanation for the ancient technology we see at these sites, for the similarities we see all over the globe, and for the astronomical alignments we observe? The reason I'm starting this channel is to explore these questions, to see what these ancient places can teach us about our past and who we are today. What was the motivation behind the building of these sites? Were they built to harness energy, to elevate consciousness? It is a natural human desire to explore these kinds of questions. As my favorite mythologist and storyteller Martin Shaw says, it's important to be a great rememberer. It's been something we've been doing since the dawn of time. I don't have an agenda with this channel, and I definitely don't have the answers. But I believe that exploring questions, exploring these incredible places, and being open to what is revealed is valuable and important. Creating this channel feels like coming full circle for me. I'm so excited to share what I've learned so far, to keep exploring the incredible mystery of our shared human history, and hopefully inspire others to explore these mysteries and sites for themselves. I also want to get to know you, my audience, my community. Please leave me a comment and let me know which ancient sites would you like to explore first? What are you most curious about? I'm so thrilled you're here, and I can't wait to dive deeper into these ancient mysteries with you. Please subscribe to my channel if you'd like to join me on this journey. You can also follow me on Instagram, Facebook, and X at Secrets in Stone. We'll see you next time!