
Star Carr
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Sep 10, 2026
The Shapeshifters
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28:23Robert ClotworthyNARRATOR
North Yorkshire, England, 2015.
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28:26Robert ClotworthyNARRATOR
Archaeologists excavating a Stone Age settlement known as Star Carr make an extraordinary discovery.
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28:34Robert ClotworthyNARRATOR
Under layers of dense peat, they uncover a ritualistic headdress that is 11,000 years old, one that would have been worn by a shaman or priest.
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28:47Lynn PicknettSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
As long as there's been people, there's been the idea that certain people, certain special people, can shift their shape.
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29:50David ChildressSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We have UFO activity and what would be werewolf activity in Europe, particularly in Yorkshire.
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29:58David ChildressSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And so we have to wonder, is there some connection between UFO activity and these shapeshifters? It would seem so.
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30:07Robert ClotworthyNARRATOR
In 2016, nearly a dozen sightings of the Flixton werewolf were reported in the nearby town of Hull, just 50 miles south of Star Carr.
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30:18Robert ClotworthyNARRATOR
Witnesses claim to have seen the creature feasting on the blood and flesh of local dogs, leaving residents gripped by terror.
STRANGE ENGLAND and the UK - Steve Stockton Paul Sinclair of TRUTH PROOF
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32:46Paul SinclairGUEST
It's, it's really captured mas- me as well.
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32:49Paul SinclairGUEST
Uh, the arc- the carr's, Flixton Star Carr, which is the low wetlands that I've just discussed that, that a- attach to the village, but the, you know, they're, they're literally within hundre- hundreds of yards from the bottoms of some of these people's gardens.
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33:04Paul SinclairGUEST
And it used, in Paleolithic times, that's over, I don't know, 8 to 12,000 years ago, it was a huge lake.
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33:12Paul SinclairGUEST
Uh, obviously the, the inhabitants then would not have called it Lake Flixton, but it would've been known as Lake Flixton in, i- in, in modern day.
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33:27Paul SinclairGUEST
They've found some of the most important artifacts anywhere in the UK or the world.
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33:32Paul SinclairGUEST
They've found headdresses with red deer antlers, uh, frontlets and, and a- antlers attached with eyes drilled in them or bored in them with primitive tools.
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33:44Paul SinclairGUEST
But what's interesting is the archeologists believe that the people who inhabited Flixton Star Carr were much more than hunter-gatherers.
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33:51Paul SinclairGUEST
They found ev- evidence of mass animal sacrifice and horse butchery, and they believe that these people, these inhabitants of Flixton Star Carr, were shaman or, or, or practicing shamanic ritual with due t- based on what they've found.
The Folklore of Death
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10:54Martin VauxHOST
And back then, the dead were frequently buried in shallow pits where they were allowed to decompose, and then they were subsequently dug up so that specific bones, primarily the cranium, mandible, and long bones, could be harvested for use in shamanic dances or kept as domestic talismans.
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11:12Eleanor ConlonHOST
And we know from sites like Star Carr in Yorkshire that human remains were mingled with animal artifacts during these processes-
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11:20Martin VauxHOST
Oh, yeah
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11:20Eleanor ConlonHOST
... which suggests a worldview where the human soul was fluidly linked with the natural world, and beasts and game in particular.