Welcome to Interesting If True, the podcast that walks you like an Egyptian right into a nearby hospital temple! I'm your host this week, Aaron, and with me are: I'm Jenn, did you know the human stomach can digest a razor blade in about two hours? I'm Shea and this week I learned that the only part of your reflection you can lick is your tongue? Oh yeah, you know what time it is… it’s time for some more WEIRD HISTORY...ree etc * http://www.ancientpages.com/2014/11/19/mystery-lost-underground-city-grand-canyon/* https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/02/the-mysterious-lost-underground-civilization-of-the-grand-canyon/* https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/lost-civilization-in-grand-canyon-was-egyptian.htm* https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4556* https://io9.gizmodo.com/when-the-smithsonian-discovered-an-ancient-egyptian-col-5875252* https://www.eyeofthepsychic.com/egyptiancanyon/* http://www.reptoids.com/bio.htm* https://wexclub.com/ I know I said no more hoaxes for a while, but it’s my segment and I do what I want. April 9th of this year will be the 111th anniversary of a really exciting news article. Moon batpeople exciting? No, not quite, but pretty cool, and about as factual. So yes, in the April 9th, 1909 edition of the Arizona Gazette ran a front-page story entitled ‘Explorations In the Grand Canyon’. Now, while that’s not exactly the most thrilling of front-page news, it doesn’t exactly throw up any red flags that the following information would be early 20th-century looney tooney, either. (The subheadings are pretty good though.) The article covers the recent adventures of Smithsonian Institute explorer G.E. Kincaid on an expedition headed by anthropologist Prof. S.A. Jordan, as they...well, made explorations in the Grand Canyon. But this was no run-of-the-mill, rim-to-rim through hike with maybe some talk of mule deer and desert lizards. Nope. It was a ‘the Cardiff Giant is obviously a fossilized man’ and blue moonicorns kinda story. It also has a bit of local flair for us Wyomingites. The main gist of the story is the archaeologists have just sent back word that they have discovered, at the base of a sheer 1500ft cliff inside the Canyon, the entrance to a ginormous hidden cave city. From the article: "The latest news of the progress of the explorations of what is now regarded by scientists as not only the oldest archaeological discovery in the United States, but one of the most valuable in the world, which was mentioned some time ago in the Gazette, was brought to the city yesterday by G.E. Kinkaid, the explorer who found the great underground citadel of the Grand Canyon during a trip from Green River, Wyoming, down the Colorado, in a wooden boat, to Yuma, several months ago.” Cool, cool. This was still a time period when a lot of the big western states were largely unexplored, so they definitely could be on an adventure full of derring do and actual scientific discovery. And who knows, there could have been a civilization that DID create a city in the GC. Things get a little more...suspect however the deeper into the article you dive. Or spelunk, if you will. Did this vast newly discovered city show examples of the craftwork and lives of ancient American indigenous people? Not exactly. The majority of the article and report is told from the perspective of Kincaid, who “was the first white child born in Idaho and has been an explorer and hunter all his life, thirty years having been in the service of the Smithsonian Institute.