America Unearthed: Ancient Ruins Discovered in California (S3, E7) | Full Episode | History

America Unearthed: Ancient Ruins Discovered in California (S3, E7) | Full Episode | History

Just east of the San Francisco Bay Area are the Berkeley Hills Walls–remnants of a massive, stone wall that stretches a distance of over fifty miles, in Season 3, Episode 7, “Marco Polo Discovers America.” #AmericaUnearthed
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In “America Unearthed,” host Scott Wolter uses hard science and intuitive theories to explain the most mysterious artifacts and sites in America.

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  1. Wayne Yarbrough on September 2, 2022 at 1:27 pm

    I believe this wall picks up again to the north, south of the Oregon border along the west side of I-5 at Weed, Ca We grew up with the word being "The early Chinese RR workers/scouts" made them".. but to what end? The tracks don’t parallel it! Nothing was ever considered "cleared" as there are enough rocks to triple the height, though cows will not cross what’s there, clearing land is the only thing that makes sense because they are a pain to walk through. Imagine gravel the size of saucers and thick sometimes…

  2. Pauline Wantland on September 2, 2022 at 1:28 pm

    I am sorry but anybody who believes that Columbus discovered America is not a source i can trust.

  3. david beckenbaugh on September 2, 2022 at 1:28 pm

    Another odd one on the ancient Chinese maps….They depict Antarctica. So.. Just how far did they travel?

  4. Mike Smith on September 2, 2022 at 1:32 pm

    NOT conclusive! Your investigation is so flawed and has so word of mouth that it is impossible to be used as hard proof that chinese reached North America. According to the University of Minnesota Wolter’s claims to a honorable Master’s Degree in Geology.

  5. Toni Pepperoni on September 2, 2022 at 1:33 pm

    This show is underrated af i mean think about all the historical myths this legend has debunked and at least gathered lots of evidence to support the idea that the way history has commonly been taught is a lie and a coverup of what actually happened

  6. Jon Petre on September 2, 2022 at 1:34 pm

    Not one bit of proof

  7. Diane C on September 2, 2022 at 1:38 pm

    This has inspired me to find out more about the rock walls off Sierra college Blvd in Rocklin. I assumed the same chinese who worked on the Sierra Nevada railway tunnels built these walls ..because of the close proximity to the railroad. Why did they just take them apart and when? Housing started around 1999 but the walls were gone much earlier.

  8. Chad's Music Creations on September 2, 2022 at 1:38 pm

    Every spring when frost comes out of the ground as a farmer new rocks show up in your fields. Farmers for centuries made rock piles, looking at these rock walls there is fields rock free fields right next to them. Unless the Chinese came over to farm, I doubt it was them. These were done by farmers of the area working the fields near the walls.

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  12. JoeyB EZ on September 2, 2022 at 1:41 pm

    my old 1492 map shows a land route to calif

  13. Balki Bartokomous on September 2, 2022 at 1:41 pm

    Looks more like Baha than California.

  14. H P Oliver on September 2, 2022 at 1:43 pm

    If this guy actually has an academic degree in anything, it would be hogwash.

  15. kingstonerxx3 on September 2, 2022 at 1:50 pm

    Just another show that leaves you with more questions than answers

  16. Stephanie Radloff on September 2, 2022 at 1:51 pm

    I remember a wall on 11 acres of land we lived on in Hudson New Hampshire 1983 I use to climb over them when I was a kid. I jumped over ran through the woods to my friends house. I don’t know if there still there. I thought the stones were old then. I live in Florida now. Just to put it out there.

  17. Sandra Salmon on September 2, 2022 at 1:54 pm

    The Chinese went to Africa first and got their info because the Africans came to America first.

  18. KraftyKris10 on September 2, 2022 at 1:55 pm

    Yeah we already know we’ve been lied to our entire lives.

  19. Jonathan Sheffield on September 2, 2022 at 1:55 pm

    I’m not convinced the Texas wall is natural. The samples should have been taken further apart.

  20. Benny Smith on September 2, 2022 at 1:56 pm

    It seems EVERYONE beat Christopher Columbus to America!!!!!

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  22. Ronald Hall on September 2, 2022 at 1:57 pm

    We were told that the contents were originally connected and through time they spread apart so back awhile in time California was in Asia I think the Chinese build them when they were connected

  23. JoeyB EZ on September 2, 2022 at 2:00 pm

    maize stone writing shows rock walls nobody knows why or who and nobody cares like those walls

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  25. Michael Thomas on September 2, 2022 at 2:03 pm

    Circular stones with holes in the center like anchors used by the Chinese found off the coast of California

  26. Pensez A Moi on September 2, 2022 at 2:03 pm

    Loosely dry stacked and uncut. This seems odd for the suspected builders. I’d start with the beginning and ending points. Also, attempt to determine what was the purpose for a border in this location and not in a better location. Are there any tower outcrops or just makeshift wall? Perhaps it was to contain livestock rather than for community security.

    Interesting stuff.

  27. Roberto Rodriguez on September 2, 2022 at 2:04 pm

    Fences like this one are all over Mexico and other country’s, the manner in which people fence their properties, most likely erected by the first californios.

  28. Jade Lee on September 2, 2022 at 2:04 pm

    Is there a Part 2 to this?

  29. Kristi C on September 2, 2022 at 2:05 pm

    Call in the Time Team, and leave this storyteller home.

  30. JAlly Farms on September 2, 2022 at 2:07 pm

    wow I thought you were gonna say 500yrs ago or something but 200 yrs ago? it was probably built when some one settled there you know the land rush? if you could mark (claim) your land off it was yours as far as the eye can see

  31. Rick on September 2, 2022 at 2:07 pm

    I have seen these walls all over northern California living here for a long time most cities refuse to knock em down they build around them .

  32. Valerie on September 2, 2022 at 2:08 pm

    I grew up on a farm and I’ve been to Europe British isles and from what I see this is nothing more than people clearing the land of the rocks so that they can utilize it for grass for animals or for agriculture

  33. john bailey on September 2, 2022 at 2:10 pm

    Johnny Depp and the Pirates of the Caribbean first discovered San Francisco.

  34. TotallyShatteredVids on September 2, 2022 at 2:14 pm

    I’m shocked. I thought the Native Americans discovered America… Based on the evidence of them already being here. How can you discover something that no one else has ever discovered and talk to the people living there? It seems most likely that the people in American discovered America and someone else, who cares who, only carried the information back to the world at large. Maybe the best way to say it then is that Columbus popularized America.

  35. Bill Murphy on September 2, 2022 at 2:14 pm

    Indians mightve done it.

  36. The Proton Lighthouse on September 2, 2022 at 2:15 pm

    I’ve lived and hiked these walls in the diablo range all my life and they run deeper and longer then this episode showed. I have found them in Napa where I went to school on the top of the valley, as well as placer county where i live currently. They also exist in the Sutter buttes. If anyone has more information they would like to share. Please message me.

    Also of note. When you are on top of the diablo range you can have full view of a large percentage of Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys of California, and the Bay Area without binoculars.

  37. Traylor Kart Tech on September 2, 2022 at 2:15 pm

    Hundreds of cultures over thousands of years made dry stack walls.

  38. Roxanne Macias on September 2, 2022 at 2:15 pm

    This wall is much, much longer than 50 miles. It
    continues up along I-5 near into Oregon. You just don’t pick it up again til north of Mt Shasta, Ca. Come on up to Mt Shasta and I’ll show you. Drive up I-5 and about Montague you will find it crossing fields. Paralleling the freeway. They say the Chinese, who first came through the area working on the RR and mining were the ones who made the walls to clear the fields of lava strew rocks. See Pat Griffin’s story below in Placer Co, not far from my Siskiyou Co. Why is it a hard idea to believe the Chinese came through early 1800’s, late 1700’s maybe..

  39. FluffinMcPuffin ! on September 2, 2022 at 2:16 pm

    Even ghost ships make their way to crazy places. Anyone could move artifacts from a drifted ghost ship, wreckage, barrels etc… especially if it runs ashore. The 2011 Tsunami in Japan washed out a kasagi from a torii gate and it ended up in Oregon.

  40. Adam E. on September 2, 2022 at 2:16 pm

    Meh….m

  41. Roxanne Macias on September 2, 2022 at 2:16 pm

    Scott Wolter it’s not gonna rewrite anything for us in California from SF to the Oregon border. The story has been long told. Why they felt to clear the fields of rock, unknown cuz the Chinese here just mined, didn’t keep cattle or horses that we know of. The rock walls would contain cattle who don’t like to cross things like that but horses wouldn’t be contained. No one thinks they are older than the 1700/1800’s. in extreme N. California.

  42. Greg Moyers on September 2, 2022 at 2:17 pm

    They were built to keep the liberals in the area. We new a new wall.

  43. Lonnie1000 on September 2, 2022 at 2:18 pm

    He finally found something !!!!

    Oh wait… this one was not a real mystery….. it is common knowledge….

  44. Rick Keifer on September 2, 2022 at 2:18 pm

    You might want to visit Chinese camp calif.there is a lot of the rock walls around there you might fined a lot of your answers there.

  45. Beth Eli on September 2, 2022 at 2:19 pm

    out of topic : the Abraham Ortillus map names Philippines in its former name I guess "CHRYSE’ which I have came across or heard of before , before it got its now name Philippines from Spanish conquest

  46. Shannon Sanchez on September 2, 2022 at 2:20 pm

    There is a wall similar to this one in ca. By lake Mclure close to Mariposa ca. I was told they were made by chinese too

  47. Segundo B. Salioni on September 2, 2022 at 2:21 pm

    Anybody notice rock walls in Ireland? Rocky place, boundaries for animals. That’s my guess.

  48. Nick Hoff on September 2, 2022 at 2:21 pm

    Chinese text blurred @15:35 ?

  49. Melvin Hunt on September 2, 2022 at 2:22 pm

    Downtown LA, and San Francisco! It’s been on the news!

  50. Diane C on September 2, 2022 at 2:26 pm

    Their was rock walls like this on SIERRA COLLEGE BLVD in Rocklin Ca. I remember asking an adult who built them when I was around 5 years old. They said the Chinese. It wasn’t until I was 40 or 50 I realized they were gone and thought what a shame that was.

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