Kevin Sterling: Ozark Atlantis

Summary

Author Kevin Sterling argues that refugees from a sunken Caribbean 'Atlantis' fled the Younger Dryas catastrophe through Florida and built a hidden, knowledge-based civilization in the caves and bluffs of the Arkansas and Missouri Ozarks. He claims these refugees mixed culturally with unusually tall 'giant' peoples and with crash-stranded gray aliens he calls the Night Dwellers, whom he links to the Cherokee legend of the Moon-Eyed People. Host Cliff Dunning opens with his own AI-assisted claim that the Great Sphinx's head is a later replacement made of different stone than its ancient body.

Key takeaways

• 1Host Cliff Dunning claims AI analysis shows the Great Sphinx's head is disproportionate, made of different stone, and was attached later in sections, contradicting a late-1970s paper by Egyptologist Mark Lehner.
• 2Sterling credits Andrew Collins's idea of Caribbean land masses ('Atlantis in the Caribbean') and says refugees passed through the Miami Circle, Weedon Island and Crystal River in Florida before reaching the Ozarks.
• 3Sterling claims the Cherokee 'Moon-Eyed People' were gray aliens stranded after a crash, which he calls the 'Night Dwellers' (a term he says he invented), and links them to Arkansas legends of pale, small beings.
• 4Sterling cites Carter County Cave (a roughly 400-foot-long, 8-foot-high wall), 'counting holes' in limestone, Miller County 'heart stones,' granite discs with map-like markings, and a grooved metal plate from Shannon County as evidence of an ancient civilization.
• 5Unusually, Sterling rejects the idea of 12–15 foot giants and a Smithsonian cover-up, arguing instead that the Osage were naturally tall (around 6'8") and that later stories were exaggerated through a biblical lens and sensational newspapers.
• 6His other books include 'Night Dwellers,' 'Giants in the Ozarks,' 'Giants in the Earth,' 'Beneath the Bluffs,' 'UFOs in the Ozarks,' and 'Witchcraft in the Ozarks'; he also references the 1890s airship wave, spook lights, and friendly Bigfoot legends in Eureka Springs.

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Transcript excerpt

You know, I'm beginning to see that there is good evidence for a kind of a community. And I don't know if this is purposeful or not, but it's beginning to feel like it. Restrictions and fences put up on research that uncovers evidence of ancient cultures. And one of the big ones that happened almost two and a half decades is the Great Sphinx in Egypt. And when I say resistance to change, resistance to new information, I'm speaking of John Anthony West and Robert Shock, who basically identified the Sphinx as much older. Shock dated the weathered stone that the Sphinx is cut from as being almost 10,000 years earlier than what has been predicted. Now, I find the same evidence in the case of the Sphinx with regards to the head of the Sphinx. And what is amazing for me is I have been using chat and cloud AI systems to analyze the body of the Sphinx and the head. And what keeps coming up is two parts, the body and the head. And it looks like the head that we see today has two major issues. The first issue is that it is cut from stone or actually my analysis or AI's analysis is it was another head that was attached to the original body of the Sphinx. Now, what is amazing is I've been doing testing and asking Chad to put a head on the Sphinx that is proportional to the body. Hey, this is Cliff, your host of Earth Ancients, and I have to tell you, this is fun. ...

Excerpt from Earth Ancients, Oct 10, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.