Freddy Silva: The Megaliths

Summary

Researcher Freddy Silva argues that the great megalith concentrations of Portugal, Brittany and northern Scotland were not tombs but deliberately engineered 'megalithic machines' that harnessed telluric energy for healing, farming and altered states of consciousness. He links their builders to a tall, fair-haired priestly lineage he connects to the Scythians and the Tuatha de Danann, and to seafaring people who survived the flooding at the end of the Younger Dryas, possibly Atlanteans. Host Cliff also floats the idea that Maya pyramids sit on energy fields that may have 'terraformed' crops and consciousness.

Key takeaways

• 1Silva claims only 6% of so-called megalithic 'burial sites' have yielded human remains, and that stellar alignments date sites near Évora, Portugal, to about 6,800 BC.
• 2He claims the Tumulus Saint-Michel at Carnac has dirt layers dated to 8,000 BC, and that an Armenian site has alignments going back to 26,000 BC, older than Göbekli Tepe.
• 3He says menhirs collect telluric current and discharge it roughly every 70 minutes, and that touching one left his forearm numb for 10 minutes.
• 4He attributes the megaliths to the 'fair folk,' an Anunnaki-linked Scythian priestly caste he identifies with the Tuatha de Danann, and says the Church recast them as 'fairies.'
• 5He cites an unnamed American researcher's claim that Avebury's avenue stones alternate magnetic poles like the CERN collider, and the late John Burke's claim that Avebury's entrance stones release stored energy at dawn at double the local frequency.
• 6Further claims include a 39-foot menhir underwater between Malta and Sicily, a five-mile tunnel under Sintra, Portugal, hidden pyramid entrances in Giza's side temples, and a book by Guatemalan elder Carlos Barrios describing 55,000 'active' Maya pyramids.

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Transcript excerpt

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! We'll be right back. Yeah, it's Oktoberfest. We're in the thick of it. If you're living in Germany, you're headed to Munich for the gigantic tents. And the beer consumption. I live vicariously through my one-quarter German. My grandfather, who came from Dusseldorf, uh, I never had Lederhosen until I was an adult. But we did celebrate with music and celebration. I was introduced to beer at a young age. Not like you drink in a whole bottle, just a sip or so. And I'll tell you, I really do appreciate German beer. They know how to make very, very tasty, light, amber beer. dark beer in all types of flavors. They also make fruit beer and something I was introduced to a couple of years ago, probably almost 10 years ago, which is barrel-aged beer, where they will pour a dark beer into a bourbon barrel, and they'll let the beer soak, and so you get a bourbon aftertaste. Really, really flavorful. It's not something you drink all the time. It's very strong. It's like 7% to 10% alcohol. Most beers are about 4% to 5%. So that's a consideration. I love Oktoberfest because I get to put my lederhosen on. And here in Northern California, I'm over in the East Bay, which is in the Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond area. And there's a settlement here, a German settlement, that has a street event, their Oktoberfest version of the big Munich version. So it's a lot of fun. It's a chance to kick back and enjoy company of friends and some good food and a beer or two. Hey, this is Cliff, your host of Earth Ancients. And we are celebrating and the summer is officially over. And we're looking into autumn. ...

Excerpt from Earth Ancients, Sep 26, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.