I have hundreds in North Georgia. Most have paint on them. I have even found almost perfectly preserved clay effigies with paint and worked flakes used as eyes, noses, and ears. I have also been called crazy, but have clear images. The most bizarre is a translucent paint that when made wet and held in proper lighting almost gives a 3 dimensional image of ancient man's face, men with antlers, ravens, and most all of mine have either tiny white faces with black over the eyes or red faces with black over the eyes. Happy discovering.

Our ancestors were highly intelligent and left historical documents in their own way, in stone. With spiritual connections concerning all things of nature and concentrating on the most important elements in their lives which gave them life, animals, to enhance the hunt, it is my belief that they sculpted these in stone, wood and bone as a spiritual connection for encouragement to go about their daily lives in courage. I have so many of these, one is a woman with a nursing baby, her face is beauty and perfection, these effigies are truly history in stone, left to us that we should treasure and keep safe for future generations, I just may write my own book too, in spite of naysayers.

I live in Vegas and I have been rock hunting and collecting my whole life and I have animal effigies. I have old people, native faces, birds, wolves, I have some truly beautiful pieces. I absolutely was thinking these thoughts about my finds shortly before I saw this video. Yes! The rocks have faces

I can’t stop watching this interview. I really would love to get a hold of Jim Gaskins. I’m excited for his next book.

When you have to show where the face is because others can't see it, it's your mind. Your mind can make you see faces and animals anywhere. Think about looking at the clouds and seeing one thing and someone else sees another.

Loved this. Keep on keeping on!!Another effigy hunter.

This is why you shouldn't trust public broadcasting 🤣

This is the future of archeology.

Such confidence in these folks

Awesome. Loved this show. Rock art and effigies are my thing.

Portable rock is everywhere. Every state. But archaeologists refute PRA and believe it to natural. It’s real. It’s ancient.

Some stones were deliberately carved by ancient peoples, for different reasons. Other stones, coincidentally, were created by nature, itself...which is explained as being "pareidolia."

Loved this I have been hunting arrowhleads in very northern california my whole life of 60 yrs. I think I'm good at it but the efigies I truly love. I have a grey squirrel, coyote birds fish.people,seals so many. I think that so.e are maps,maybe hunting or fishing grounds

This just made me so happy.. my stone art makes sense now.. a hippo a rhinoceros a lion/puma a gorilla and a bears face in a snarl.. all the images have a mirror or reverse image of a/the image ( animals).. (11) eleven images on one stone..

Amazing finds, I've found a turtle, white Buffalo, horses, and more, the rocks speak to us!

No! PBS should not be giving this credence. I'm sorry but they're just rocks.

WOW! An extremely interesting introduction to a largely unknown and unappreciated cultural aspect of humans who lived here long ago.

Great interview on Jim's effigy collection and book. The book will make a great addition to my collection.

I went through the same thing...people said I was crazy. I have some pieces that I found years ago. I had no clue about effigy stones back then. Now...I realize I have some true treasures. Museums can't even come close to the beautiful collection Ihave found through the years. I still have so much to learn. Having fun at this Hobbie like no other. I gave up hunting arrowheads. These are spiritually deeper and give so much insight to their beliefs.

Thank you for spreading the word. I was disappointed when at 40 years old I found out about this ancient culture and all the artwork behind it and it was denied by archaeologists. When I was a child they told me to be like curious George but as an adult they want me to keep quiet and stay in my house. The art led me to an Indian mound being destroyed for housing development right near where I was finding this art. Now I’m trying to save the mound but it doesn’t seem like anyone in North Carolina gives a dang

Thank you for sharing this. As an aspiring full spectrum- ist with a collection of historical artifacts or leaper rights meteorites meteor fragments media wrongs effigies you name it. I grew up a deep thinker aspired by philosophy art and music. Now at 40 wildlife isn't by any measure what my parents had raised me to be prepared for, rather I feel as though there is a wrinkle in time and so much is just ain't right. Thank God for the ancients our ancestors brothers and sisters from eons ago who also loved music art and the world of which they had mastered that delicate balance of mutual respect for mother Earth and mother Earth apparently love them. It's become my pursuit of happiness in some measure while I deal with the onslaught of an unforgiving and unjust current world order, that I have found my every possible free moment digging for more clues and indulging in independent research and studies to solve this gift of a peculiar and insatiable drive to salvage any bit of this secret and monumental slice of time and culture. If anyone is available outsiders or insiders, I would love the opportunity to meet and be able to discuss with y'all some of the experiences and share discoveries amongst each other in the hopes to bring about a suitable and undeniable solid collaboration of knowledge artifacts specimens you name it all bound together in a professional and encouraging formation to share amongst those who may be duly is curious and more importantly sure to the best of our knowledge something beautiful for future generations to come. In a world that seems so indispensable lately we're hardly few if any at all I really looking for those details it's a wonder if we're going to make it too much further regardless of technologies advances can't have one without the other it's a balance. Sorry for the long message but you truly do bring a smile to my face and it warms my heart to know no matter how odd my loved ones treat me when I go pick up another rock I can rest assured I am not the only one who sees something and I've consider it a gift

When native peoplea made effigies they made them from good types of stone locally available and highly polished and unmistakable. A frog looks like a frog. A turtle looks like a turtle ect. What this dude is doing is the same as staring at clouds and seeing animals and shapes. I might see a elephant in a cloud, this old cat might see a 3 legged donkey.

Pareidolia is the tendency for incorrect perception of a stimulus as an object, pattern or meaning known to the observer, such as seeing shapes in clouds, seeing faces in inanimate objects or abstract patterns, or hearing hidden messages in music. Awesome shirt!

Have some effigies also. Most arrowhead hunters don't believe they were made and aren't artifacts. I love your collection.

I have found a lot here in Colorado also tools and I can't seem not to find them now they are everywhere I look now I thought I was crazy at first but I'm not the only one which is comforting 😉

The ones who are chosen to find, I believe we are only circling around. :) hello tribal souls

Pareidolia.

I am in WA State, I have recently found a large amount of various tool types and some effigies...in my yard of a rental house...would like to get ahold of this man if anyone knows how to contact him now...this message is being posted almost a year after the interview...any information would be appreciated...thx

I have hunted effigies since 1961, I have about 200. The effigies that have 2 heads on it is like our marriage ring. The effigies are from two people getting married from 2 families in the tribe. Each family has an animal that represents their family. A man can only marry a Squaw from another family in their tribe or another tribe. Family is dad, mom,aunts and cousins with the same last animal they represent. The Potawatamy, Ojibwa, Ottawa and other tribes followed this tradition.

This man speaks truth.

The presence of this rock art is way way way more prevalent than people can even imagine....

So, it’s not just my imagination when I find stones I think are birds etc in ny !

I have effigy rocks, usually a bird in the mouth, tail carved etc. My understanding is the small ones were talismans - if you carried an owl you wanted good night vision. Jesuit missionaries said to toss them, so they're in historical record. Interesting that the depictions are similar per animal, my deer, bear, panthers and especially eagles resemble each other. Favorite is a beaver with one big tooth and well carved woolly mammoth.

At 15:27 he's misunderstood the stone. It's not a mountain man wearing a lion skin, it's a mammoth face and the trunk is also a smiladon(sabertooth). At 16:46 there is a smilodon as well, not a bobcat. You can see the teeth covered by it's lips that shroud the saberteeth. We modern humans learned that the lips did this within the last 25 years. The person who made this saw these things in person. These are older than he realizes. But he's super cool and has a neat collection.

Someone should introduce hime to Brent kunes

wow, you really felt the need to point out this was filmed prior to covid. /smh

Last week they dug a hole on my job site in Chicago right outside the city and thousands of birds popped up thousands I grabbed as many as I could but they were breaking them up and a lot of them were broke but they dug up thousands and that's about a hundred miles from the other site that I have they also dug up with the birds they all had a stand every bird had a stand that it sat on like a trophy

can't decide who has the better shirt

Thank you for you video. Wyoming is God's country for sure. I have found lots of Native American artifacts here in Cortez, CO on private land with permission. Mostly pottery sherds and cutters. I have been warned not to keep as bad spirits follow them. I have owned a box of arrowheads since childhood. Never experienced anything. I know Native Americans believed everything, the trees, rocks, all had spirits. What are your thoughts and have you ever experienced anything. ty

How can I reach this gentleman. I do this type of stuff. Just had a question . If possible. I live in Missouri.

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Enjoyed this segment. I have found these over the years, and yes, I've been looked at like I'm crazy. The first that I really took note of was a three sided wolf's head out of a white stone with black trimmings for the face features. I found what I thought was a charm of sort, worn by human hand, the more I looked at it. I believe it was a turtle, greenish rock too. A natural rock that looked like art, I believe, would have been cherished by the Indians no doubt. They sure liked the pretty agates.

18.00 I see a fish in that stone as well.

I'VE FOUND THOUSANDS...FROM THE TINIEST TO A 50 LB AGATE...COVERED WITH CARVED SNAKES...

This man is tripping. It's called pareidolia. It's just his imagination..

Ole Jim has a real imagination.....

I have some ver kool effigies too, been trying to get help identifying

Me too in Michigan Charlie have fun hunting!

Let's not forget that there are also mythological creatures made into the stones as well as probable animals that have since become extinct that most common folks haven't even heard about before. So if there seems to be something monstrous or non-human but has detail, It's a possibility as well. This world has seen many creatures of all types in all of IT'S history, not just our modern one. The shamans were believed to have also created what they had seen while on their dream journeys. Dreams are subjective to the person that's telling the story. Not everyone is going to get it.

i have a house thatr sits on a mound opf these effigies and no one will help me figure this out they just want to know where i got them from.. and now i swear people are digging under my house!

With respect to the turtle effigy , there are Native American flood stories that include a turtle

You can tell the difference between natural pieces and worked pieces. You've got to remember that long before pens, paper and Walmart, art work consisted of sticks and rocks. Many rocks show manmade markings but not everyone had the talent. A lot were done by children. Recognizable finished pieces are a lot harder to find but when you are open-minded enough to recognize the difference, the hunting is extremely enjoyable.

I knew it! I know what I'm looking at and what I see! No one talks about it and others I think I can trust laugh at me and make me feel stupid. I have a past with drug use so people make me feel too afraid to say anything because they will act like Im some tweeker and I'm high. I don't want people to look at me like that so I don't like saying something but I think it's important and changes what we know about humans, indians, and the historical facts and dates of things. And it's being destroyed by people not caring not looking and not acknowledging what's around them. There is so so much where I am living and has never been mentioned anywhere. It's here. Tons of it. Thank you for this. I knew I wasn't crazy. And my interpretation of what I thought I was seeing is confirmed.

I like to call these finds, the every mans effigies. They were portable and probably not reserved for high status individuals, a very personal item.

Also I love his bear deer effigy it taught me a little bit of things I have a bobcat etched in this stone with something in its mouth and I really couldn't understand it until I saw his bear dear effigy the Bobcat is holding a bird in its mouth it is really cool and I learn a lot by watching KZfaq and him and all the others that post this really cool stuff that we would otherwise be ignorant of I want to start posting some of my cool stuff I just have to figure out how to do it I have a stone that me and my girlfriend had for years until I figured out on one side it is a beautiful toad and on the other side it is a beautiful Sparrow or some sort of bird like that she has always collected weird odd stones and we never really realized they were Effigies and when you start looking at them you see it so clearly it is so cool take care and be blessed all

If you compare the rocks to petrified snake heads you will figure out how they were made. And also think about larger serpents like dinos and dragons. It's a little bit scary but that is what most of them are

my family thinks im crazy too .. in ohio i found a bird mound and my brother thinks im crazy but they worshiped birds here and they had a bird cult here and i discovered a place where they left the bird effigys most are tools and most have several faces and animals ,it happens and people can learn to see what they are and how to see them just my op i love these things esp the pocket ones with faces and headdress

i have a cler crystal snake head that i believe to be clovis it mimics the fluting ofthe points they made i could be wromg wish i had someone to check it out stunning detailive found a boars head that doubles asa buffalo several bird stones sculls horse duckshape stones and tons of toolssouth carolina

I would be a happy man when I find a turtle head as big as that one. Love to see great art on the rocks. For some reason, I dont see the arrowheads. I sure can see a rock looking at me though. Them are the easy ones to spot. The pointy things I find has three sides, each corner smoothed to the point. Different sized ones, the smaller ones look to of have been hafted. I think thats what its called. Alot of activity in Atchison, Ks.

Hell of a imagination

They were training aids for hunting strategies also . I have some on my channel that are unbelievable.

Only one that looks legit to me is the so called turtle.

I also found a 10-ft statue approximately but all it's sticking out of the ground is the head and the top of the body about 2 ft of it but it goes straight down in the dirt

The one with the mano embedded in it looks more like an owl.Owls r frequently associated with sorcery.

Native people believe that such items should be left alone . The Non-Native finder does not know the history , use or purpose of these items and can only offer conjecture as to the use or purpose , esp. if used by a Shaman which is different than a Medicine person . There are powerful spirits attached to such items and not to be trifled with or removed from their location. Any Native person can tell you this , like I just have .

I guess a 2 year old told a story of what he could see on a rock and this guy never grew up on a rock story Sorry I can't see anything except for a rock the PBS guy is laughing cause he feels the same way

In the farmers just plowed out here in Illinois about a month ago and they hit a 2-foot statue in my field tore it up I put it all in a little pile onto the side but they broke it up so bad is is at least a 2 ft high schedule all birds

And I'm sure these must be Scottish Indians because you know that's where it all started

It's never too late to look for their art . Just look down , it's everywhere .

You got it right when you said and this is a bird that's all that is a bird part bud nothing else sorry to burst your bubble but that's the third part you guys both got it right I have a lot of them. And just to let you guys know I'm 51 and I started hunting arrowheads with my father when I was 9.

Yes interpretation but he is right!! I have several pieces that have several purposes. And animal/human effigies. Absolutely amazing! He is 100% correct!

Umm... don't know about some of these. I can make any rock look like something just like I can with clouds. Most of these are cores from knapping tools like knives, arrowheads, scrappers. True Effigies you can see the figures without question, the native american were very much advanced in their stone tool making and effigy making. Sorry, but a lot of this looks to be to me a beautiful imagination, having seen many true effigies in museums and private collections.

How did this guy make it on PBS and write a book?????? This was painful to watch.

The area that I hunt my arrowheads and find all these birds is not far from Peoria straight East 2 1/2 hours

The big effigy looks more of an owl to me than a turtle

This is getting comical

I bet you that first rock is a bird head missing the beak and stuff is probably a real big statue but I don't think it's a turtle head

Okay I have to say it golf wasn't even around talking Phineas be playing golf on a rock

Definite bird not mountain man they drove the hole in it to make that beak you have an upside down you're missing the stand and it's probably a long tail that went with it if you look carefully you'll see everything that's broke off I'm positive lot of bird parts

That's a big no! False information.

And turtles are my most plentiful finds but I think they find me 🤨😂

He's only found 200 in 40 years? I can get you 200 in five minutes...

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I just wanna say anyone who doubts this.id love to prove a skeptic wrong give it a chance hmu

At 10:58 the mouse rock is proof it wasn’t carved. I can show you an effigy in every rock. It’s not an effigy it’s a natural formation. The mouse is evidence for natural formation. I have found a series of patterns in every rock. The lion head is one of them. It also can look like a dinosaur with the crystals always in the position of teeth. The lion head is always facing right. If you turn the rock the opposite direction you will see a lamb or ram head. If you turn it long ways vertical you will see a face and the other way an entire body. It is repeatable 190% using the scientific method.

I believe about the mouse but the rest of bird parts

I can send you thousands of pictures of the things I have all birds even if I don't want it to be a bird it's a bird

You have a lot of bird stands and you can see the tails carved in the top of the stand like that brown rock a lot of things are birds with these Indians I'm telling you but that brownstone it's a stand with a tail carved into it you're missing a lot of it I've got a lot of stands I've got 5 ft high stands with tails carved in them a lot I've got a lot of small stands I've got birds that are perfect not even a missing heads nothing perfect so I know what I'm saying bud and you got a lot of bird parts I think

Side of mountain man it's a bird and where they drilled that hole in it that's I think that's the beak right there you headed upside down when you first brought it out but it's bird part telling you there a lot of bird parts ain't no mountain man

I like when you say it's a bird and the other man says I can actually see that it is they're all bird parts but everything you have is bird parts

I have to make this comment I agree with 90% of what he is saying but his little white mouse story doesn't really hold a lot of authenticity to me because it could have been just a simple chip of that stone and it happens to look like a mouse to him which I agree but I don't see any actual to work to prove that they made a white mouse and I do believe it could have been white mouse like he believes but in reality I think it was just somebody not to chip off that stone and nature made it look like a white mouse I don't think it was actually intended to be a white mouse but then again I can be wrong because I'm not the one who chipped it and I'm not the one who thought hey that looks like a white mouse everything he said is probably true but I have a little bit of disbelief in my mind if it was actually intended to be a white mouse because I find a lot of stones that were actually made by Nature and they could be whatever you want to interpret them to be and the Native American Indians could have interpreted that to be a white mouse and I'm not saying that it isn't and I don't want to sound like a disbeliever because I do know a lot of his stuff is truly Effigies but I had to make that comment and see if anybody else agreed with me all right take care and bless all of you