Episode #379: Cart Ruts in Stone - Mystery Still Not Solved

Summary

This episode dives into the enigmatic cart ruts found in Turkey, exploring their origins, formation methods, and historical significance. Utilizing drone footage and listener contributions, the hosts seek to uncover the mysteries behind these ancient structures. The discussion ranges from conventional explanations to imaginative theories that challenge our understanding of ancient technology.

Key takeaways

• 1Mystery of cart ruts in Turkey
• 2Debate over who created the ruts and when
• 3Theories include sleds, plows, and even jet skis
• 4Impact of volcanic tuff on rut formation
• 5Discussion of listener-submitted theories regarding their origins
• 6Comparisons drawn to similar geological formations globally

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Transcript excerpt

And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, angels and demons and monsters and serpents. This is Brothers of the Serpent Podcast, and we are coming to you not live from the 10x10x10 Tangent Cube of Science. That is where Kyle is, actually. He is in the 10x10x10 Tangent Cube of Science, nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient seabed, high atop the Airways Plateau, and I am in my new studio hiding from Sam's Ranch in the foothills of the Appalachia. That's good. Yes. Hiding from Sam's Squanch and Eldritch Horrors. Yes. So, I have been saying on multiple episodes previous to this that I want to do a response to all of the responses we got on the Cart Ruts episode we did. We did an episode called Pyramids and Cart Ruts, Mystery Not Solved, and we showed a whole lot of our Cart Rut footage from Turkey. And we got such great emails in response. I mean, just an enormous number of them. And I've gone through and I was reading them as they came in and flagging the ones I wanted to respond to. And there's just like, there's a whole group of those emails that I had set aside. So, today, on this episode, we are going to go through those emails because there's so many good ideas, and I've got all the footage and the images pulled up. So, I want to, like, read people's ideas and then use the footage and everything else to discuss their ideas. But first, we should do Space Weather News from SpaceWeather.com where we get all our Space Weather News. So, there is a strangely quiet giant sunspot. Around the world, amateur astronomers are monitoring a giant sunspot which is emerging over the sun's southeastern limb.…

Excerpt from Brothers of the Serpent, Jul 2, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.