Stonehenge, Giants and Druids - a conversation with Hugh Newman!

A conversation with Hugh Newman of Megalithomania! We get into a variety of topics, stone circles, giants, druidic traditions and the origins of humanity, amongst others. Set to footage from Hugh as well as my own, I very much enjoyed the chance to meet and talk with Hugh, and we'll get together again on future swapcasts, I hope you enjoy the podcast!

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[MegalithomaniaUK]

Thanks Ben. Delighted to be on your podcast. If anyone has any questions, please ask! - Hugh

[kingcrabbrc]

Been binge watching this channel for the past few days I love it.

[cfapps]

Thanks Ben. Been listening to Hugh as long as I've been making videos.

[joeycoberly]

I dont usually comment on anything, but I just wanna give Ben a shoutout man, you do an amazing job with this channel. I just cant stop binging, keep up the good work!

[MIOLAZARUS]

I cried like river when leaving Egypt when I left after my trip 15 years ago. It felt like home. It felt grand and true. Now I know there are so many things we need to understand better. I feel so lucky.

[dominadors]

Historian and teacher here! Your videos are absolutely fascinating! I live real close to Stone Henge so I am excited to watch this video. It being so close I always forget how fascinating it actually is. Keep up the great work 💪

[azy]

The intro music gives me goosebumps every time because I know I’m about to be taken on uncharted mental journey.

[Dragineez]

Love that vintage TV in the background.

[tomjeffries]

Minute 1:12:00. When I went to Talum in Mexico the first time back in 1991, my future wife and and just drove up to the site, we explored it for hours and swam in the incredible Caribbean Sea by ourselves and sunned on the beach. We came back 10 years later with our kids and there were concession stands and hundreds of people and a completely controlled environment. I understand it is an elite destination today. :(

[IamAmericasDaughter]

Two exits, no just don’t use a colander, if the toilet is occupied! Funny story told on Gram Norton.

I grew listening to stories about the giant red headed Indians from my grandfather, who lived in Kansas his entire life. This was not ancient, this was while he was young. 100-80 yrs ago. These always made me cry.

[ben]

I appreciate you putting out great content with good audio. You have great footage and speak clearly about interesting topics

[iameatingtrifle]

I'm 57 now, I can remember as a child my parents taking us to stone henge, parking at the side of the road and wandering up to the stones and looking at them. I even remember we had a picknick there and sitting on one of the fallen stones in the middle and eating a jam sandwich.
Thats how much things have changed in 47 - 48 years.
You best try and go to these places now because in another 20 years people will probably be baned from even looking at them.
This makes me so sad because our history belongs to everyone.

[lupantherd]

I love your channel. Truly brings wonder to my life ;)

Can you do one on Japan megaliths? I would be curious to hear your experience, insight and perspective on “Masuda no iwafune, ishi no hoden, sakafune ishi, the 100, 000 kofun tombs with megalithic structures inside.”

[dubselectorr]

Fantastic conversation! 2 great gentlemen in the front lines here. Love all the work

[HungLikeScrat]

I'm glad to see you discuss stuff like this, it's much welcome and appreciated. You should do more like this.
I'm 44, and as a kid growing up in the 1980s, I never believed the mainstream when it came to our human origins. I threw the Out Of Africa theory out the window when I was like 9. I believe there are perhaps dozens of evolutions of hominids that evolved separately, and at different times, and eventually some of them met and intermingled. Considering we had giant fauna and flora in the distant past, we could've easily had giant humans too. I think the different skin, hair, and eye colors, the different blood types, etc, all come from different hominids that evolved in different areas and at different times in the past. Stargate SG-1, SG-A, and SG-U are my favorite shows because they actually talk about the Lanteans/Ancients that evolved here millions of years ago and left at some point, then came back to find a 2nd evolution of humans that some of them intermingled with and carried their genes into modern times. I'm not saying I believe these Ancients left Earth or whatever, but the idea that there were multiple evolutions aligns with my beliefs. The fact that the Ancients were that advanced is also not believable, but I've always believed there were advanced civilizations in the past that have since vanished for some reason or another. I do think humans as we know them date back millions of years, not just tens or hundreds of thousands. It could be possible that at some point there were civilizations almost as advanced as ours, and the evidence would have long been lost, but I doubt they were capable of space flight to other galaxies and stuff. But, who knows? If they had satellites in space, those would've crashed to Earth long ago and been lost to the sands of time. I often wonder if the large deposits of metals we find sometimes aren't the remains of ancient steel buildings that have been reclaimed by nature.
Anyways, sorry for the book. I hope to see more of these types of videos.

[finlaycowan]

I've driven past Stonehenge a few times recently and I love the fact that in 2022 an '8000' year old monument causes a huge traffic jam... all day... every day.

[anonony]

Using scoops to tune the stone sounds like a neat idea but I don't get why they'd need to do it on a statue as well as a functional piece. I think it's more likely the scoops were removing cracks.

[Thex-W.I.T.C.H.-xMaster]

Hugh, to me is up their with Brien Foerster and Graham Hancock... an amazing guy, with alot of knowledge in this field 🙂👍.

[brendosapien]

The conversation is about giants, but I wanted to point out a piece of folklore about little people with an actual physical analog - old Hawaiian tales of Maui have him encountering the 'little forest folk' in areas that may have been where we ended up finding skeletons of Homo Floresiensis (the hobbits of flores) and there are tales of orang pendek in indonesia in that area as well.

[donmitchell]

Thanks Ben, Love your work best format ever.