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September 2, 2006: Ancient Weapons and Stargates - William Henry

Sep 2, 2006
2h 38m
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Art Bell welcomes investigative mythologist William Henry to examine ancient weapons and their connections to modern power structures. Henry argues the Ark of the Covenant functioned as both a communications device and a weapon responsible for tens of thousands of deaths, with radioactive tablets producing lethal beams requiring priests to wear protective clothing. He traces a lineage from this technology through Heinrich Himmler's occult research facility to a clock tower Saddam Hussein built in Baghdad mirroring Himmler's Spear of Destiny design.

Henry reveals that Nashville, Tennessee houses a 2,200-foot-long structure matching both Himmler's and Saddam's constructions, suggesting these edifices encode knowledge about ancient stargate technology. He describes how Egyptian depictions of Ra sailing through gates of stars use shapes identical to Stephen Hawking's portrayal of wormholes, proposing that modern physics is rediscovering a primordial science of interdimensional travel.

The conversation expands into the idea that human DNA contains instructions for interfacing with these gateways and that the approaching technological singularity represents humanity's chance to transcend current limitations. Henry points to scientists from major universities quietly studying locations where craft appear to enter and exit luminous portals, suggesting the convergence of ancient myth and modern physics may soon become undeniable.

Key Moments

  1. The Ark of the Covenant as a radioactive weapon: Henry argues the Ark of the Covenant was responsible for as many as 65,000 deaths - including 50,000 Philistines - and that the two tablets of the law inside may have been radioactive, with priests wearing protective clothing and unauthorized handlers struck dead by 'Ark radiations.'

  2. Bin Laden, the Mahdi, and Lake Tiberias: Henry says the Koran places the Ark of the Covenant near Lake Tiberias and that the Islamic Mahdi will be identified by retrieving it from Antioch - and that some Islamic scholars at the time saw Osama bin Laden as a potential candidate to fulfill that role, with disastrous geopolitical consequences if he did.

  3. Ra's bark and the Hawking wormhole: Henry claims the Egyptian depictions of Ra sailing his Bark of the Millions of Years into a gate of stars are visually identical to how Stephen Hawking, Brian Greene, and Michio Kaku draw a wormhole today, and asks whether modern physics is rediscovering an ancient sacred science of stargates.

  4. Northern Michigan and Phoenix gateway research: Henry says accredited scientists, including from the University of Michigan, are quietly studying sites in the UP of Michigan and near Phoenix where videos show craft coming and going through bright tunnels of light - what he calls gateways - with a book on the Michigan site forthcoming.

  5. Saddam's Spear of Destiny and Disneyland for the Anunnaki: Henry argues Saddam Hussein's clock tower in Baghdad was a near-replica of Heinrich Himmler's Spear of Destiny - a particle-accelerator-like 'gateway' device - and that Saddam was building a 'Disneyland for the Anunnaki,' gathering thousands of Sumerian tablets and demanding the Ishtar Gate back from Berlin, and that this ancient WMD knowledge may be the real WMD the US never found.