
Oct 12, 2026 · 54 min · 20 segments
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Adam BotanaHostIt's exclusively out in the water.
I believe it's protected.
It's a preserve.
And Mound Key Archaeological State Park is amazing.
Open sunrise to sunset by boat only with no facilities.
The state's 2026 draft management plan says Ian put more than eight feet of surge on the water.
Okay, but the mound key was built...
By over – it says about roughly 2,000 years, shells, fish bones, and pottery piled in the mounds more than 30 feet high.
About 1,000 people lived at their capital, Calos, when the Spanish showed up.
Wow.
One of the first, which is now the U.S., by 1569, the Spanish were gone.
In 2020, Florida Museum of History of Georgia archaeologists confirmed that the fort stood… And now Mountain Key Archaeological State Park is open sunrise, sunset, blah, blah, blah.
And it's a combination of shell, fish bones, pottery, and any other very hard thing that they could build or put into the ground there to create an island.
They were some of the only Indians in all of America to actually ward off pretty much everybody.
They wind up dying from disease.
But we're definitely fierce and known to just about everybody in the area.
We started out in Estero Bay.
We're going to work our way up north towards the Pine Island Sound and talk about Khorasan, the people who lived inside the earth.
There was a gentleman by the name of Dr. Cyrus Teed, and he brought about 200 followers to the Estero River.
And they preached that we live on the inside surface of a hollow earth.
T died in 1908, and the followers reportedly waited for him to rise, and in 1961, the last four members deeded 305 acres to the state.
It's exclusively out in the water.
I believe it's protected.
It's a preserve.
And Mound Key Archaeological State Park is amazing.
Open sunrise to sunset by boat only with no facilities.
The state's 2026 draft management plan says Ian put more than eight feet of surge on the water.
Okay, but the mound key was built...
By over – it says about roughly 2,000 years, shells, fish bones, and pottery piled in the mounds more than 30 feet high.
About 1,000 people lived at their capital, Calos, when the Spanish showed up.
Wow.
One of the first, which is now the U.S., by 1569, the Spanish were gone.
In 2020, Florida Museum of History of Georgia archaeologists confirmed that the fort stood… And now Mountain Key Archaeological State Park is open sunrise, sunset, blah, blah, blah.
And it's a combination of shell, fish bones, pottery, and any other very hard thing that they could build or put into the ground there to create an island.
They were some of the only Indians in all of America to actually ward off pretty much everybody.
They wind up dying from disease.
But we're definitely fierce and known to just about everybody in the area.
We started out in Estero Bay.
We're going to work our way up north towards the Pine Island Sound and talk about Khorasan, the people who lived inside the earth.
There was a gentleman by the name of Dr. Cyrus Teed, and he brought about 200 followers to the Estero River.
And they preached that we live on the inside surface of a hollow earth.
T died in 1908, and the followers reportedly waited for him to rise, and in 1961, the last four members deeded 305 acres to the state.
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