The Cosmic Tusk

Chris Cottrell of Dabbler’s Den has been one of the key researchers carrying the Carolina Bays investigation forward for a decade, and his conversation with George Howard on the Cosmic Tusk podcast covers the full arc of the research: where the community started, how the tools evolved, where the three main researchers diverge, and why Chris changed his publicly held position on the age of the bays...

PART TWO In 1984, Dr. Greg Little published the first work connecting plasma physics to the UFO phenomenon, and forty years later his position has only solidified. This second conversation with George Howard picks up where part one ended and moves into territory that covers plasma, UAPs, the Zeitoun apparitions, Edgar Cayce, and four decades of expeditions to the Bahamas. The plasma argument is gr...

PART ONE Dr. Greg Little has spent forty years mapping, researching, and documenting the mound builders of North America, and the number he keeps coming back to is one that most people are not prepared for: there were probably a million mounds spread across this continent, from the Aleutian Islands to Florida, from New York to California, and roughly 100,000 still exist today. George Howard sits d...

The Cosmic Tusk Podcast brings together George Howard and Randall Carlson for a wide-ranging conversation that moves from the megaflood geology of the Canadian Shield to the Younger Dryas boundary, through Monument Valley and the Colorado Plateau, and finally to Plato, Ignatius Donnelly, and what the original text of Timaeus and Critias actually says about Atlantis. The geological thread runs thro...

Paul Schatzkin is the author of two books that George Howard considers among the most important and least known in the alternative science space - The Boy Who Invented Television and The Man Who Mastered Gravity. This episode focuses primarily on the first, marking the 100th anniversary of the invention that became the most ubiquitous technology on the planet, but the conversation inevitably exten...

George Howard sits down with Matt Barone - geometry teacher, podcast host of Curious Dimension, and one of the more methodical independent researchers working at the intersection of sacred geometry, UAP phenomena, and ancient site analysis. What begins as a conversation about the mathematics underlying Giza quickly expands into one of the more unusual episodes the Cosmic Tusk has produced - pullin...

Michael Donnellan is the producer and director of Atlantica - a three-season documentary series ten years in the making, currently in a distribution bidding war, with Sky History Channel filming an episode at the site in June. George Howard, who attended the Cosmic Summit premiere of the first episode, has been sitting on the story for nearly a year while the rest of the world waits. This conversa...

Allen West has never appeared on a podcast before this conversation. For nearly two decades, he has been the principal researcher and lead author behind the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, the proposal that a massive comet or its debris struck the Earth approximately 12,800 years ago, triggering the sudden return to Ice Age conditions, the extinction of tens of millions of megafauna across North...

George Howard sits down with Daniel Hodges of the Hodge Cast for a conversation that moves from the frontlines of the second Sphinx debate to the collapse of free speech in Britain, held together by a single recurring theme - why intelligent people keep shutting things down before they have done the work. The Filippo Biondi situation is live as they record. George's frustration is not with mainstr...

Few conversations in the alternative history space cover as much ground as this one. George Howard sits down with Timothy Hogan - 33rd Grand Master of the Knights Templar and 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Freemason - for a wide-ranging discussion that moves from the bones of the Holy Family to the founding of the United States, from Gnostic Christianity to Napoleon's initiation in the Great Pyramid. T...

Aaron Hines and Cody McDonald are self-described pajama scientists - two independent researchers with day jobs, families, and an obsession with the deep past that has taken them from the highlands of Peru to the jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula. The centrepiece of this conversation is Cody's three-year research project that led them both into the southern Yucatan jungle to investigate undocumented...

Dr. Filippo Biondi is a satellite radar specialist who has spent more than three years scanning the Giza Plateau using synthetic aperture radar data from multiple commercial satellite systems. His work on the plateau has already produced significant subsurface findings. In the last month, working with independent researcher Damiano Pieracci who identified the candidate location, Biondi turned his...

Dr. Dallas Abbott is a geophysicist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University - one of the most prestigious geophysical research institutions in the world. For more than two decades, working largely outside the mainstream conversation around Holocene impacts, she has been building a case that a cosmic object struck the southern Indian Ocean within the last 12,000 years and sen...

In 2017, geochemist Dr. Mark Defant appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast alongside Michael Shermer specifically to argue against Graham Hancock's lost civilisation hypothesis and, by extension, to express scepticism toward the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. He had been asked to join the show the night before, spent that evening reading up on the subject, and went in unconvinced. What followed over...

Dan Sutton is an autodidact who started with Google Earth and a background in electric universe theory. What he found, and has spent years attempting to disprove, is a scar running from the Taklamakan Desert through the Middle East and into North Africa that he believes marks the entry and exit points of a plasmoid - a self-sustaining electromagnetic structure - that struck the Earth around 12,000...

Andrew Gallimore is a neuroscientist based in Tokyo who studies DMT, not as a drug that causes hallucinations, but as a chemical key that switches the brain's reality channel to something else entirely. In this episode of The Cosmic Tusk podcast, George Howard sits down with him to talk about what that space actually is, why the simplest molecule in nature unlocks the most complex experience ever...

In this wide-ranging conversation on the Cosmic Tusk Podcast, host George Howard sits down with geologist and researcher Randall Carlson and Pacific Northwest historian Dan Richards to dismantle some of archaeology's most sacred assumptions. The centrepiece is an Italian engineer's relative erosion study of the Khufu pyramid, one that dates its construction somewhere between 10,000 and 40,000 year...

Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe is a cosmologist, astronomer, and mathematician who spent nearly 50 years working alongside Sir Fred Hoyle. Together they published roughly 70 papers in Nature arguing that cosmic dust is biological, that life is a property of the universe itself, and that Earth is a collection plate. None of those papers were ever refuted, they were ignored. In this episode of The Cosmi...

Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe is a cosmologist, astronomer, and mathematician who spent nearly 50 years working alongside Sir Fred Hoyle. Together they published roughly 70 papers in Nature arguing that cosmic dust is biological, that life is a property of the universe itself, and that Earth is a collection plate. None of those papers were ever refuted, they were ignored. In this episode of The Cosmi...

On this episode of the Cosmic Tusk, Dana Kippel (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCaDgEYwfJOKMduoLGlXA6NQ) joins George Howard for a wide-ranging conversation about plasma - what it actually is, why it makes up 99.9% of the visible universe, and why so few people seem to know about it. They dive into: Ball lightning and why serious research into it keeps disappearing The plasma clouds sitting a...

What if ancient civilizations on opposite sides of the world were far more connected than mainstream archaeology admits, and the key to understanding why lies in galactic cycles? Lance Weaver joins George Howard on the Cosmic Tusk podcast to lay out the evidence for pre-Columbian transoceanic contact, cultural diffusion across ancient civilizations, and a bold geological framework linking polar ex...

Polish researcher and author Aleksander Cieszkiewicz joins George Howard to explore ancient kings lists, lost civilizations, and the metaphysical roots of human history. From Plato’s Atlantis to the dreamlike visions of ancient gods, the conversation tracks the threads of myth, memory, and science across thousands of years. Aleksander shares insights from his book Déjà Vu: Has Everything Already B...

What qualifies as real evidence? Where do we draw the line between scientific skepticism and open inquiry? Michael Shermer ⁨(https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCfsuI3-92QNO3DVy06PO9wg) joins George Howard on the Cosmic Tusk podcast for a candid exchange on the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, confirmation bias, and the philosophical divide between mainstream science and alternative researchers. I...

Independent researcher Raul Bilecky joins George Howard to explore the celestial logic behind ancient architecture. Together they investigate how civilizations across time aligned their monuments with Orion, the Milky Way, and serpent symbolism rooted in the sky. The conversation covers recurring motifs like the axis mundi, twin deities, and sacred geometries embedded in stone. Raul explains how t...

Former NASA consultant and plasma physicist Dr. John E. Brandenburg joins George Howard to discuss evidence suggesting Mars was once a living world, and the data that points to a sudden, planet-wide catastrophe in its deep past. The conversation explores isotopic findings, surface imagery, and long-standing scientific questions surrounding Mars, as well as why its history may be central to underst...