12 Most Uncomfortable And Controversial Finds In American History

Not everything that historians and archaeologists discover pleases them. Sometimes, they come across artifacts or other pieces of evidence that challenge our current understanding of history, and not always in a good way. For better or worse, those new facts have to be accepted as they are, even if they change the way we think about our own history. Here in this video, we're going to look at the most controversial discoveries in American history.

[josiahcox]

I am registered Cherokee. I find it hard too believe that other native tribes do not recognize the symbol of a tepee or a corn cob lol

[michaelhammond]

The Mayan Calendar never predicted the end of the world, it said that it would be the end of that time cycle and the start of a new one. I hate when this gets skewed.

[tubularfrog]

So the carved 'egg' artifact that was found near Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire is made of granite. The narrator said, "the type of rock used to carve the egg isn't from the New Hampshire area", yet New Hampshire is called "The Granite State". This doesn't make any sense.

[trevormillar]

There's a museum in Ireland that possesses TWO "authentic " skulls of.... Oliver Cromwell! If you ask how Cromwell had two heads, they reply, "Ah well, this one is Cromwell as a young man"!

[nicholaslaport]

I like how when the narrator says "the Mayan calendar" but shows several images of the Aztec sun stone from Tenochtitlan

[richardgillette]

You say "the type of rock isn't found in the New Hampshire area". Then you say the type of rock is granite. NH's nickname is the granite state

[bopeep]

When the narrator talks about the mummified little person found in a csve in the San Pedro mountain in Wyoming in 1944, he misspeaks saying the mummified person was barely over 6 feet tall. I am sure he meant to say barely over 6 inches, not feet.

[DomDomPop]

It’s always crazy to me when people dedicate so much time and resources trying to discredit findings just to keep their current understanding safe, rather than examining the evidence found, regardless of what it says.

[kreyta]

This was painful. The amount of research left undone before making this article is tremendous.

[dawnpalmby]

"The eyes of that species of extinct giants, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our do now"
- Abraham Lincoln 1848

[superfreakmorris]

Why are we stuck on a notion that other ancient civilization never made it to the Americas.

[cameronward]

I don't think it's unreasonable that early peoples (Greeks, Romans, and even earlier) could have gotten caught up in the trade winds in a particularly windy season and ended up in central/south America. Sure it would mean they were stuck and their ships/boats probably worn beyond repair... but a few artifacts could have made it there. A tsunami in Asia gave us beaches full of crap in western US/Canada...

[redreaper]

So the tiny mummy just so happened to disappear before we could do a DNA test? Not suspicious at all.

[InternetPersond]

The mummy was 6 inches tall or “barely 6 feet tall”?

[manny]

1. I've been convinced that civilizations from other parts of the world found themselves in the Americas long before 15, 000 years ago.
2. I've also been convinced for awhile that there were entire civilizations yet to be discovered.
3. The Smithsonian undeniably covers things up. On multiple occasions, people have found burial mounds where every skeleton is a person who was a minimum of 7ft tall. They "somehow" manage to lose them when they are sent there though.

[tc]

Any people who travel by boat, canoe, or raft on the ocean has lost people at sea. It is a known fact that people have survived making the cross Atlantic trip via current alone. It is not surprising at all that there are artifacts depicting this. What is surprising is how so many "scientists" refuse to accept they could be wrong.

[Julie-mhms]

I find it odd that whenever an object is found that goes against the prevailing theory, the object tends to be misplaced or outright disappears.

[ebbnorton]

We just want the truth, no matter what it is. Why must people lie about ancient artifacts? I hate hoaxes as much as the deniers who hide artifacts and the truth.

[papdaddy]

I hate that historians immediately shoot down any theories that don’t fit what they think is correct it’s honestly so stupid and it irks me

[nonegiven]

the doll is an easy one.
the way the drill works means the doll was stuck in the drill pipe and only got dislodged after 300ft.
It's likely it was scooped up in the first foot or so and is just a local native American doll