The Mystery of Easter Island's Walking Statues

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All Comments (21)

@decodingtheunknown2373 4 months ago

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@johncrossley6945 4 months ago

Apologizes for making a dark joke, then immediately follows up the apology with the same dark joke. Classic Simon lol
@parzivalplays7403 4 months ago

"There are THOUSANDS of them??!!" .... LOL Kind of like how many YouTube channels Simon has 🤣
@leem.9332 4 months ago

To be fair the canoes the Polynesians used aren’t the small lake ones Simon is thinking of. They were over 60ft long and weighed multiple tons which put them on par with Viking long ships.
@GIBBO4182 4 months ago

Perfect timing…was just looking for something to watch/fall asleep to 😂😂
@kpturn42 4 months ago

Simon, that bit about sparrows was one exaggerated cockney accent away from being a Monty Pythons bit 😂😂
@RHCole 4 months ago

Simon: The statues can't walk! Narrator: ...but he was wrong.
@StudioHappyboy 4 months ago

Simon sees ancient wonder: well it’s a bit shit innit?
@MLG85 4 months ago

Decoding the unknown has become more business blaze than even brain blaze!
@OrdinaryDude 4 months ago

Can a sparrow fly thousands of miles? Well... Are you talking about a European Swallow or an African swallow? 🤔
@SlothLinn 4 months ago

Whoever decided to make these heads seriously played the best prank on all of humanity. We might wonder about things like Atlantis etc, but these things are indisputably real... Imagine putting that much effort into "lol, people are gonna scratch their heads for ages over this one"
@Cloud30000 4 months ago

‘Thousands of people aren’t going to stay on a boat for a week” That’s called a cruise ship, Simon
@curtislindsey1736 4 months ago

I'm gonna need a tangent timer on the next Decoding the Unknown😂
@Chuck-PK 4 months ago

20:33 this is dangerously close to a certain Monty Python bit considering the brief coconut tangent earlier.
@kalakalatu 4 months ago

10:15 If by "off the coast of Chile" you mean over 3832.95 miles of featureless ocean.
@the-chillian 4 months ago

Simon, they DID prop up the Leaning Tower of Pisa. They had to, or it was going to fall over. Honestly, that project may be worth a Megaprojects video. They also fixed up major portions of the Great Wall of China.
@pgwchaos 4 months ago

There is a video of researches 'walking' the statues using ropes. It was a pretty interesting video, and does show you can't underestimate ancient peoples and that the human mind can come up with just great ideas.
@thedrunkenelf 4 months ago

Anyone who’s interested should watch the video of the archeologists “walking” the statues. They recreated it and it works. And they did “magical chants” eg - kept timing.
@Ennead13x 4 months ago

Simon pausing in the middle to look up the relative geography between Easter/Christmas/Cook Islands for 5 minutes and then getting distracted by Angkor Wat is so relatable that it's concerning.
@OG_Wakanobi 4 months ago

You've never walked a refrigerator or washing machine across an apartment, have you?