Encore! "Finding the Black Olmec"

Skeptoid by Brian Dunning

May 30, 202617:11Religion & Spirituality

Our final Skeptoid Adventure of 2026 takes us to the Yucatán coast to explore the Mysteries of the Maya. So, in anticipation of that, we're playing an episode from the archive that takes us to the heart of Mesoamerica: "...

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