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Before Atlantis, there was Lemuria. It\h
was a gigantic land flowing with milk\h\h

and honey. But in a sudden disaster,\h
this continent vanished into thin air.

All its beauty disappeared in the blink of an eye.\h
But millions of years later, many still wonder,\h\h

what did this gigantic continent really look\h
like? What were their cities made of? Who\h\h

were their people? And above all, are there\h
still traces of the Lemurians among us today?

We'll find out together in this new\h
episode of Secret Origins. Welcome!

Before we get down to how Lemuria looked,\h\h

have you ever wondered where the subject\h
of Ancient Lemuria really came from?

Some legends tell the story of\h
the Lemurs as though they met with\h\h

them directly or had scrolls passed\h
down from their heavenly ancestors.\h\h

On the other hand, scientists fight these\h
ideas as a whole and argue that Lemuria\h\h

is a figment of people’s imaginations\h
that quickly spiralled into a movement.

The question is, who is lying? Is\h
Lemuria a true tale passed down,\h\h

or a fake revelation to certain\h
tribes? Or does science have an\h\h

upper hand regarding this continent?\h
There is only one way to find out.

Here's how this story begins. And it starts in\h
a way you might not expect—with lemurs. In 1864,\h\h

an English zoologist named Philip Sclater noticed\h
something that didn't make sense. Lemur fossils\h\h

showed up in Madagascar and in India. But there\h
were no fossils in between. Not in Africa. Not in\h\h

the Middle East. Just Madagascar and India,\h
separated by thousands of miles of ocean.

Sclater asked the obvious question: How did the\h
same species end up on opposite sides of the\h\h

Indian Ocean? His answer seemed reasonable for the\h
time. There must have been a land bridge. Maybe\h\h

even a whole continent connecting them. To this\h
effect, he called this untouched space Lemuria,\h\h

after the lemurs themselves. Before long,\h
other scientists jumped on board. Starting with\h\h

the naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace. Wallace\h
studied animal distribution across Southeast Asia,\h\h

and to his surprise, he found the same puzzle.\h
He noticed identical species separated by vast\h\h

stretches of water with no way to cross. Right\h
after Wallace was Geologist H.F. Blandford, who\h\h

looked at fossil plants in India and South Africa\h
and saw such striking similarities. The results\h\h

were so alike that in 1875, he admitted that\h
only a direct land connection could explain this.

At first, this evidence seemed too\h
solid to ignore. In the late 1800s,\h\h

deep-sea explorations found underwater\h
mountain ranges in the Indian Ocean. That is,\h\h

massive ridges that rose thousands of feet\h
from the ocean floor. And people began to ask,\h\h

what if these were the peaks of drowned mountains?\h
It got so much that biologist Ernst Haeckel got\h\h

involved. In his work "The History of Creation,"\h
he suggested that Lemuria was probably where the\h\h

human race first evolved. For a moment, it\h
looked like Lemuria might join the ranks of\h\h

accepted scientific theory. But then plate\h
tectonics came along. Plate tectonics and\h\h

Continental drift. This is the discovery that\h
continents don't sink overnight like we thought.\h\h

Instead, they move slowly over\h
millions of years. And suddenly,\h\h

Lemuria as a sunken continent made less sense. The\h
scientists moved on. However, the mystics didn't.

This is what we mean. While geologists were\h
abandoning Lemuria as a scientific hypothesis,\h\h

occult researchers were just getting started.\h
And they claimed to have access to something\h\h

the scientists didn't. Ancient records. Spiritual\h
archives. Some called them the Akashic Records,\h\h

a cosmic library containing the complete\h
history of everything that ever happened.\h\h

You know how tales of old have been passed\h
down from generation to generation? This was\h\h

what these researchers brought to the surface.\h
And it started with the Russian American author\h\h

named Helena Blavatsky. In 1888, Blavatsky\h
published "The Secret Doctrine." In this book,\h\h

she described Lemuria not as a hypothesis,\h
but as a historical fact. According to her,\h\h

Lemurians were the "Third Root Race" of humanity.

They came before Atlantis. Before us. They\h
were giants who lived millions of years ago,\h\h

and their civilization was unlike anything we've\h
ever seen. Then, as if to buttress Blavatsky’s\h\h

point, in 1904, a Scottish historian named W.\h
Scott-Elliot took things to the next level when\h\h

he published his book, "The Lost Lemuria." His\h
source? He claimed to have copied information from\h\h

ancient maps preserved by mystical masters. Now,\h
these were not maps anyone could see or verify.\h\h

They were maps that existed on what he called\h
the "astral records." But to everyone’s shock,\h\h

Elliot’s descriptions were incredibly specific.\h
He gave coordinates, drew detailed maps,\h\h

described the landscape, the people, and even the\h
animals that lived in Lemuria. How crazy is that?

Really crazy. But this is what makes Elliot’s\h
book interesting. One look at his descriptions,\h\h

and researchers saw that he wasn't just making\h
wild guesses. Much of what he described,\h\h

from the volcanic activity and the prehistoric\h
creatures to the tropical climate, all match what\h\h

modern paleontology has discovered about Earth\h
during the Mesozoic era. The age of dinosaurs.\h\h

The age of giant ferns and inland seas. So\h
did Elliot see something real? Or was he\h\h

just a very good guesser who happened to align his\h
mystical visions with actual geological history?

The question haunted researchers for over a\h\h

century. Because if Lemuria existed\h
the way these mystics described it,\h\h

then everything we think we know about human\h
history is incomplete. Maybe even wrong.

According to the accounts compiled by\h
Scott-Elliot and other researchers,\h\h

Lemuria wasn't some modest island chain.\h
This was a colossus of a continent.

Picture this. Starting near where the Cape Verde\h
Islands sit today, off the coast of West Africa,\h\h

Lemuria stretched in a massive arc across the\h
equator. It swallowed up what is now Madagascar.\h\h

Parts of India. All of Australia. Then it\h
continued east across the Pacific Ocean, sweeping\h\h

past Easter Island, the Marquesas, all the way to\h
within a few miles of another giant landmass in\h\h

the Pacific—roughly the size of South America—that\h
covered parts of Patagonia and Cape Horn. At its\h\h

peak, Lemuria nearly circled the entire globe.\h
It was larger than Asia and Africa combined.

The climate? Elliot described it as\h
perpetually tropical. Warm. Humid.\h\h

That kind of heat that makes everything grow\h
wild and enormous. But more than the weather,\h\h

Scott-Elliot described massive inland seas.\h
Lakes so large they'd make the Great Lakes\h\h

look like ponds. And from these bodies\h
of water rose volcanic mountain ranges,\h\h

constantly active, belching smoke\h
into skies that probably never saw\h\h

a truly clear day. To all who read Elliot’s\h
works, this was clear— Lemuria was the most.

In addition, the lowlands were covered\h
in forests unlike anything we see today.\h\h

Imagine tree stems reaching heights of 100 feet\h
or more. Their trunks were as thick as redwoods,\h\h

and their fronds cast shadows deep enough to\h
hide creatures we only know as fossils today.\h\h

The ground of Lemuria stayed ever marshy, as it\h
was fed by rivers that flowed from the volcanic\h\h

highlands. And everywhere you looked, you could\h
see evidence of volcanic activity. Rivers of\h\h

lava weren't unusual in that continent. The\h
ground trembled regularly. In some regions,\h\h

the very air sparkled with heat from vents in\h
the earth. Lemuria was a continent alive with\h\h

geological violence even during its most\h
stable periods. But even the landscape\h\h

was just the beginning. Because according\h
to these accounts, somebody built cities\h\h

there. Massive cities that would make our\h
modern mansions look average by comparison.

Now we enter territory where the accounts divide\h
wildly, depending on who's telling the story.\h\h

Starting with Scott-Elliot. He described Lemurian\h
cities as cyclopean. That is, they were built from\h\h

enormous blocks of stone, some weighing several\h
tons, fitted together without mortar. What’s more,\h\h

the architecture was erected to match the scale\h
of the people. Everything was built for giants.\h\h

If you were to walk through Lemuria, you’d see\h
temples with pillars 30 feet high. Fortifications\h\h

with walls 15 feet thick. Gigantic plazas\h
that could hold tens of thousands. But other\h\h

sources describe something even stranger.\h
According to modern Lemurian researchers,\h\h

the cities weren't just made of stone.\h
They incorporated crystals. Some accounts\h\h

talk about buildings constructed from\h
translucent stone that glowed at night.\h\h

Towers that spiraled into the sky, their\h
surfaces catching light in ways that made\h\h

them seem almost alive. These researchers say\h
that the Lemurians understood something about\h\h

crystalline structures that we've lost. They\h
knew how to grow crystals to specific shapes.\h\h

How to program them with information. How to use\h
them as both building materials and technology.\h\h

If this is true, then we humans have fallen\h
short of the advancement we always boast of.

Lemuria had temples with walls that looked\h
seamless—as if the entire structure had been\h\h

carved from a single massive piece of rock. No\h
joints. No rough, visible construction marks.\h\h

Just smooth, perfect surfaces that seemed to\h
appear from the mountain itself. According\h\h

to Scott-Elliot, some of the cities were built\h
entirely from blocks of volcanic lava. One of\h\h

these cities stood about 30 miles west of\h
what is now Easter Island. It's gone now,\h\h

destroyed by the same volcanic eruptions that\h
created it. However, Easter Island itself holds\h\h

evidence. Starting with the giant statues called\h
the moai. They stand at a jaw-dropping height of\h\h

about 30 feet tall. But that’s not the most\h
surprising thing about these statues. It’s\h\h

that they were carved with primitive tools,\h
but they still fit with remarkable precision.

According to Elliot, this was no mistake.\h
They were portraits. Actual representations\h\h

of the Lemurians who carved them. Or perhaps\h
their ancestors, from an even earlier age,\h\h

when the race stood taller. Think about that\h
for a moment. Statues that reach nearly 30\h\h

feet in height, carved to represent\h
the people who made them. Not gods,\h\h

but themselves. Or else, how could normal\h
humans have built such statues at that time?

If you think the Lemurian architecture is wild,\h
brace yourself. This is where things get genuinely\h\h

bizarre. The modern accounts of Lemuria from New\h
Age researchers describe Lemuria as a civilization\h\h

with such groundbreaking technology that sounds\h
more like sci-fi than ancient history. The\h\h

Lemurians had no electricity as we do today, yes.\h
Yet their cities glowed with light anyway. Bright\h\h

light that came from the crystals themselves.\h
This is what some accounts call "living light",\h\h

especially because it responded to consciousness,\h
coming up when people were near, and dimming when\h\h

rooms were empty. According to Gaia's historical\h
research on Lemuria, their technology revolved\h\h

around resonance and vibration. The Lemurians\h
mastered the use of specific frequencies for\h\h

construction. What this means is that they didn't\h
lift stone blocks with ropes and pulleys the way\h\h

we do. Instead, they used sound. Hard to accept,\h
but with precise tones, they could make massive\h\h

stones levitate, allowing them to stack heavy\h
blocks with perfect accuracy. Unbelievable right?

There is more. More to the power of sound\h
in the Lemurian age. With these tones,\h\h

they created healing chambers. These are rooms\h
where they used combinations of sound, color,\h\h

and crystal resonance to treat injuries and\h
illnesses. They encoded water with specific\h\h

energies for healing and growth, improving\h
both crops and human vitality. No doubt,\h\h

everything within their ecosystem must\h
have been maximized for higher living.\h\h

Solar energy also played a major role. Not\h
the solar panels you know —those are crude by\h\h

comparison. The Lemurians were said to have used\h
devices to capture and store solar energy in ways\h\h

we still don't understand. This way, they created\h
sustainable power sources that never went down..

And if you wonder how they moved around, there\h
were the vehicles. According to some accounts,\h\h

the Lemurians built flying craft. Not with\h
engines and fuel, but with that same crystalline\h\h

technology. And if you dare to push the boundaries\h
a bit, there are whispers that their aircraft\h\h

could become invisible at will. In his book,\h
Scott-Elliot himself describes seeing records of\h\h

Lemurians using crystals to propel boats. Not with\h
sails or oars, but with focused energy emanating\h\h

from carefully tuned crystal chains. This is the\h
height of your sci-fi novels, don’t you agree?

Now, you might be thinking: this sounds\h
impossible. And you'd be right to be\h\h

skeptical. We have no physical evidence of\h
any of this technology. No artifacts. No ruins\h\h

with glowing crystals or levitation devices.\h
But here's what makes it interesting. Many\h\h

ancient cultures—completely separate from\h
each other—describe similar technologies\h\h

in their myths. The Vimanas of ancient India\h
told tales of flying palaces and cities that\h\h

glowed with inner light. Even healing\h
temples that used sound and vibration.

Would you say this was a mere coincidence? Were\h
these tales just random myths passed down by\h\h

ancestors? What if they were faint memories of\h
something that actually existed? Of Lemuria? If\h\h

we can believe the stories our grandparents\h
told us, why is it so hard to accept this?

But let’s step away from the cities for a\h
moment. Because according to the accounts,\h\h

Lemuria's natural world was as extraordinary as\h
its technology. In The Lost Lemuria, Scott-Elliot\h\h

talks about a world still in the age of reptiles.\h
From his records, Dinosaurs didn't just exist—they\h\h

dominated. Especially the massive Plesiosaurs\h
who lived in the warm inland seas. Another\h\h

dinosaur class, Pterodactyls, flew overhead, with\h
their wingspans reaching over 16 feet. On land,\h\h

these Dinosaurs could reach lengths of 40 to\h
50 feet. And guess what? Some of the largest\h\h

specimens discovered in fossil records measure\h
even more. But here's where the descriptions\h\h

get really strange. The Lemurians didn't just live\h
alongside these creatures. They domesticated them.\h\h

Can you imagine this? The Lemurians were said\h
to have trained massive reptiles the same\h\h

way we train dogs. They used the dinosaurs for\h
hunting, protection, and even for transportation.

Picture this: A Lemurian, 12 to 15 feet\h
tall, holding a sharpened staff and leading\h\h

an enormous Plesiosaur-like creature on\h
a thick rope made from twisted vines.\h\h

Using the beast's strength and aggression to hunt\h
other animals. Top-tier lifestyle. We could also\h\h

talk about their impressive vegetation. From\h
their giant tree ferns, they created canopies\h\h

so thick that sunlight barely reached the\h
forest floor. According to Scott-Elliot,\h\h

the Lemurians learned to cultivate wild\h
grains, improving them over thousands\h\h

of years into the cereals we recognize\h
today—barley, oats, millet, you name it.

But wheat was different. Scott-Elliot makes\h
an extraordinary claim: wheat wasn't evolved\h\h

on Earth at all. It was brought ready-made by\h
advanced beings from another world, specifically\h\h

to feed humanity. A gift that required no\h
evolution, no selective breeding. Just... given.\h\h

Not just that, the Lemurians also kept animals\h
we'd recognize. The ancestors of llamas. Large\h\h

cat-like creatures. Wolves. Some accounts mention\h
the ancestors of Irish elk roaming the hillsides\h\h

in herds, too wild to easily approach but\h
still under some degree of human control. Well,\h\h

the Lemurians had them under control.\h
Records have it that Lemuria became a\h\h

living laboratory of animals that would later\h
solidify into the species we know today.

Now we come to the most unsettling part\h
of this story. The Lemurians themselves.\h\h

According to Scott-Elliot's accounts—which\h
he claimed came from ancient records—the\h\h

early Lemurians were barely human at\h
all. At least not by our standards.

Imagine this. They stood somewhere between\h
12 and 15 feet tall. Their skin bore a dark\h\h

yellowish-brown color, almost mahogany. Their\h
lower jaws were pronounced, giving them an\h\h

ape-like profile. Elliot noted that their faces\h
were strangely flattened, with almost no forehead.\h\h

That is, where the forehead should have\h
been, there was just a thick roll of flesh,\h\h

and their heads sloped backward and\h
upward in this unsettling way. Their\h\h

eyes were small but piercing. But that’s not\h
as strange as it gets. The Lemurians’ eyes\h\h

were set so far apart that these beings\h
could see sideways as much as forward.

And then there was the third eye on the back\h
of their heads that allowed them to see in\h\h

all directions. In a 1904 lecture at the Royal\h
Institution, Professor Ray Lankester pointed\h\h

out that many ancient reptiles had enlarged\h
openings in their skulls, suggesting a third\h\h

eye that actually worked. To date, modern lizards\h
still have remnants of this organ. In humans,\h\h

the third eye is said to have dissolved to\h
form the pineal gland. But in the Lemurians,\h\h

this third eye remained active for millennia.\h
It served as their primary organ not just for\h\h

physical sight, but also for psychic vision.\h
These beings could literally see into other\h\h

forms of reality! As for their limbs, their\h
arms and legs were way longer than ours.\h\h

Elliot noted that they couldn't fully\h
straighten them at the elbows or knees,\h\h

leaving them with a hunched posture. Their hands\h
and feet were enormous, with their heels projected\h\h

backward in this bizarre way that let them\h
walk backward or forward. For their clothes,\h\h

they covered themselves in thick animal skins—most\h
likely from creatures we only know as fossils now.

But here's what makes this even stranger.\h
According to Scott-Elliot, the Lemurians\h\h

evolved. Over millions of years, they went\h
through what he calls seven distinct subraces.\h\h

The earliest Lemurians had soft bodies with no\h
bones. They couldn't stand upright. Instead,\h\h

they sluggishly crawled across the ground like\h
enormous insects. But gradually, generation by\h\h

generation, their bodies solidified. Cartilage\h
eventually hardened into bone. By the third and\h\h

fourth subraces, the Lemurians could finally\h
stand and walk upright. By the fifth subrace,\h\h

they had become the 12-to-15-foot giants with\h
three eyes. And this was the subrace Scott-Elliot\h\h

describes in most detail in his book. But as they\h
progress, we learn something interesting. By the\h\h

seventh subrace, their height had decreased.\h
Their features had become less grotesque. They'd\h\h

also lost most of the function of the third eye.\h
Slowly, they began to look more human. More like\h\h

us. According to Scott-Elliot, the descendants of\h
this seventh subrace eventually intermixed with\h\h

the earliest Atlanteans. The result was offspring\h
that looked remarkably similar to some Native\h\h

American tribes today. Only this time, there\h
was one stark difference. Weird, bluish hair.

But the questions remain. If Lemuria\h
existed, where's the evidence?

We can point to the structures scattered across\h
the Pacific and Indian Oceans that don't quite\h\h

add up. These are ancient sites that seem too\h
sophisticated for the cultures we think built\h\h

them. Starting with Easter Island. Nearly\h
900 moai statues—some standing 30 feet tall,\h\h

weighing 80 tons. Carved with primitive stone\h
tools. When asked how they moved these giants,\h\h

the natives say the statues "walked" to their\h
locations. Modern researchers demonstrated that\h\h

rocking motions using ropes could work. But the\h
legends persist that something more was involved.

Then there's Nan Madol in Micronesia.\h
Nearly 100 artificial islands built\h\h

from basalt pillars weighing up to\h
50 tons, stacked like logs across 200\h\h

acres of reef. Local legends say\h
the stones flew through the air,\h\h

guided by sound. Doesn’t this sound like the\h
same Lemurian technology described by Elliot?

There is also the Yonaguni\h
Monument off Japan's coast,\h\h

which features carved steps and right angles\h
too precise to be natural. If it was man-made,\h\h

it dates to 10,000-12,000 years\h
ago—exactly when Lemuria fell.\h\h

Finally, there is Adam's Bridge between\h
India and Sri Lanka. Satellite imagery\h\h

shows a 30-mile chain of limestone shoals. Hindu\h
texts call it a bridge built by god Rama's army.

Yes, none of these sites are approved by science\h
to say that Lemuria existed. But they suggest\h\h

something. They show us that ancient cultures\h
were building with techniques we don't fully\h\h

understand. Makes us wonder, what if they got the\h
info from a greater civilization that came before?

But do you know the strangest part about\h
what Lemuria looked like? It’s not in the\h\h

past. It's about right now. Because, according\h
to thousands of believers, Lemuria survived.\h\h

Underground. Underneath Mount Shasta in\h
Northern California. Unbelievable, right?

When Lemuria collapsed 12,000 years ago, the\h
survivors carved huge caves inside Mount Shasta\h\h

using sound and crystalline technology.\h
And together, word has it that they built\h\h

Telos—the "Crystal City of Light”, existing\h
on five levels with 1.5 million inhabitants.

People claim to see them. Tall figures\h
in white robes walking around town,\h\h

appearing and disappearing. In 1904, prospector\h
J.C. Brown discovered an 11-mile tunnel with a\h\h

chamber containing gold and 10-foot mummies.\h
He organized an 80-person expedition in 1934\h\h

to relocate it. However, on departure day, Brown\h
vanished. Nobody saw him again. In 2014, someone\h\h

dug a massive 60-foot hole on the mountainside.\h
But the Forest Service quickly filled it up,\h\h

while offering an official explanation that\h
read: “illegal gold prospecting.” But in\h\h

truth, Locals whispered about someone\h
trying to find the entrance to Telos.

What did ancient Lemuria actually look\h
like? Maybe the answer isn't buried in\h\h

the past. Maybe it's hidden underneath\h
our feet, waiting to be discovered.\h\h

What do you think about this?\h
Tell us in the comments.

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