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An Alloy That Cooled Without Gravity,
The Meriv\u00e4lja Object and KGB top Secret File |
Reality Check<\/b><\/font><\/big><\/center>
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\nIn this episode of “Reality Check,” Ross Coulthart sits down with Estonian filmmaker and author Mart Sander, whose new book, “Object M: Estonia’s Buried Mystery,” traces one of the strangest and least understood cases in Europe. In 1969, a man drilling a well in the Tallinn suburb of Meriv\u00e4lja struck something solid roughly seven meters down, and the fragments he broke loose eventually reached Soviet laboratories that concluded the alloy could not have been produced on this planet.<\/p>\n

Sander walks Coulthart through the two decades of excavation that followed, the shafts sunk under the garden, the KGB files stamped top secret and the researchers who reported burns, blackouts and stranger effects the closer they got to whatever sits beneath the upper layer. He also lays out the counterarguments, from the meteorite explanation to the claim this is a forgotten first World War superalloy buried in a hurry, and explains why the physical evidence points in two directions more than a 100,000 years apart.<\/p>\n

What neither man can account for is why, years after the Soviets left Estonia, two strangers turned up at the homeowner’s door with a suitcase of cash for a small suburban house that nobody had ever proven held anything at all.<\/p>\n

Chapters<\/u>:
\n0:00 Intro
\n6:00 A Story That Found Him, and a Hundred Thousand Year Contradiction
\n7:26 An Ancient Wildlife Camera, and We Are the Wildlife
\n8:22 Shards of an Outer Layer, and No Way to Reach What Lies Below
\n11:04 A Word From Our Sponsors
\n13:10 His Favorite Teacher Lived in the House
\n14:43 What Two Years of Digging Did to the Family Inside
\n17:12 Viivika, the Caretaker Paid to Keep the Legend Alive
\n19:30 Seven Meters Down, Into Soviet Laboratories, and Out of Estonia
\n24:03 A Claim About Two Occupants
\n25:37 Aleksander Dejev, the Villain of the Book
\n29:27 Is It Still There, or Is It Moving Through the Soil
\n30:13 Nuremberg, April 1561, and the Calculation That Led to Tallinn
\n34:33 What the Vatican Archives Say
\n36:03 D Generators in the Basement
\n39:11 A Swedish Psychic and a Russian File
\n42:03 Photographs of the Dig, and Nothing of the Object
\n44:06 Igor Volke’s Two Objects
\n45:58 Bottomless Pockets
\n47:40 A Meteorite, or a 1917 Superalloy Buried in a Hurry
\n51:05 Books Flying, and a Dog That Would Not Settle
\n52:41 Vormsi Enn Says Bury It, and by 1988 They Do
\n54:54 Even the Hardened Skeptics Agree Something Is Down There
\n55:41 Japanese Television Arrives
\n58:48 The Public Discrediting of Aleksander Dejev
\n1:01:42 A Suitcase of Money
\n1:04:17 Ross Asks Mart
\n1:06:10 The Book, the Movie, and an Invitation to the Dig
\n1:07:22 Coming Up on Reality Check<\/p>\n