Bhutan's Forbidden Kingdom Hides Something Science Can't Explain

Our new eBook is out! Grab your copy here: https://buriedsignal.gumroad.com/l/vnxkzx Bhutan's Forbidden Kingdom Hides Something Science Can't Explain - Bhutan admitted its first tourists in 1974, and almost none of its past has ever been excavated. What tradition claims about that past has rarely been tested against the ground. Some of it has an explanation, and the rest has none. That gap is what this video is about. We travel into one of the least explored countries on Earth to separate history from legend. You'll see why Bhutan banned all mountaineering and left Gangkhar Puensum, the world's highest unclimbed peak, untouched. You'll learn how the founding of Bhutan's oldest temples, Kyichu Lhakhang and Jambay Lhakhang, rests on a legend of a demoness and 108 temples built in a single day in 659 AD. And you'll find out what the very first excavation in Bhutan, at Batpalathang in 1999, actually revealed through radiocarbon dating. The story continues with Pema Lingpa and the Burning Lake, Mebar Tsho, where a treasure revealer is said to have surfaced from the water with his butter lamp still burning. We follow the iron chain suspension bridges of Thangtong Gyalpo, some of whose original links can still be seen at the National Museum of Bhutan. We look at Paro Taktsang, the Tiger's Nest, hanging on a cliff above the Paro valley, and at the fire that damaged its priceless paintings and statues in 1998. Bhutan even protects a yeti-like creature in law through the Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary. We examine the DNA studies from Oxford and the University at Buffalo, the published correction, and what the results did and did not prove about the legendary migoi. When the ground has not been examined, the only account of the past is the one a people has told about itself. Bhutan is one of the last places on Earth where ancient mysteries, sacred landscapes, and unexplored archaeology still overlap. What the next excavation turns up could confirm the old accounts or change them. Our eBook, The Atlas of Impossible Places, covers 48 ancient sites and unexplained mysteries, with the mainstream case and the alternative case side by side. Get it here: https://buriedsignal.gumroad.com/l/vnxkzx If this video made you question what we think we know about the past, hit the like button, subscribe to Buried Signal, and turn on notifications for more ancient mysteries and impossible discoveries. Then tell us in the comments: which Bhutan legend do you think deserves an excavation first? #Bhutan #AncientMysteries #UnexplainedMysteries #Archaeology #LostHistory #Yeti #GangkharPuensum #TigersNest #Documentary