Randall Carlson: The Lost World Before the Flood

Summary

Rogue geologist Randall Carlson returns to Earth Ancients to argue that a sophisticated pre-flood civilization may have been wiped out by the Younger Dryas catastrophe around 12,900 years ago, its coastal cities now drowned under 400 feet of sea-level rise. He makes the case that Plato's Atlantis best matches subsided land masses near the Azores on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. He also proposes that sacred sites worldwide share a common geometric blueprint, possibly the remnants of an ancient technology that harnessed telluric earth energies and plasma.

Key takeaways

• 1Host Cliff introduces archaeoacoustics, saying the clap echo at El Castillo, Chichen Itza, reproduces the call of the quetzal bird, and that temples at Palenque and Edzna amplify speech and may induce meditative brain states.
• 2Carlson cites the 1908 Tunguska event as roughly 15 megatons, more than 1,000 Hiroshima bombs, flattening over 800 square miles of Siberian forest.
• 3The Younger Dryas boundary 'black mat' contains impact proxies such as iridium, platinum, osmium, microspherules and magnetic grains, now reported in North and South America, South Africa, Russia and Antarctica.
• 4Carlson cites R.K. Matthews' 1969 paper in Earth and Planetary Science Letters on 'tectonic implications of glacio-eustatic sea level fluctuations,' arguing that isostatic adjustment of the ocean floor explains how Atlantis subsided near the Azores.
• 5John Burke's book 'Seed of Knowledge, Stone of Plenty' is said to show tripled corn yields from seeds placed in a rock chamber in New York, and boosted growth from seeds placed atop the Lost World Pyramid at Tikal.
• 6Wilhelm Reich's orgone research was destroyed by the FDA, and Reich died in prison in 1957, as recounted in his son Peter Reich's 'A Book of Dreams.'

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Transcript excerpt

Hey, Hey, this is Cliff your host from Earth Ancients, and I hope you are doing well today as you listen to me present another show, another podcast, another presentation. Hey, today we are talking about something that I have discovered in the last year, which is archaeoacoustics, which is a new branch of archaeology that I discovered while I was researching for a chapter in my book The Maya Controversy. And what it is is a study of various acoustics in caves that ancient people visited. And the thinking is that these areas of caves and around architecture, buildings, pyramids, temples, whatever, were designed by our ancestors to elicit various states of consciousness. And it's a new field archaeo acoustics that just erupted. It's been in the works for probably two or three decades. In the late nineteen sixties is kind of where it got going, and in twenty oh three they established it as a discipline within archaeology. So what you do is you get your anthropology degree, you began researching, you do some field study, you become an archaeologist, and then you apply that as a discipline. You become an archaeo acoustics specialist, and where it's becoming fascinating is when you look at ruins. And this is something that's come up in the last i want to say, ten fifteen years, is that it looks like the Maya understood the interaction between sound, gravity and buildings. And what that means is that when you go to certain ruins, and I'm going to use to Genias as a great example, there are acoustic anomalies. One of the big ones is if you is one next to the El Castillo, which is the great pyramid in the main Necropolis, And what apparently happens is two things. ...

Excerpt from Earth Ancients, Aug 22, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.