The Cheapest Cocaine on Earth?

From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Don’t do cocaine. Your support keeps us going: https://www.patreon.com/rareearth and https://ko-fi.com/rareearth Follow our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rareinsta/ Follow my twitter: https://twitter.com/Evan_Hadfield Sign up for Nebula as well, a place where I release these videos early: https://nebula.tv/rareearth This video was made possible thanks to our incredible Patreon subscribers: &pointer, adam…

The Country That’s Sinking Itself

From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) All countries are currently sinking themselves. Some just more visibly than others. This video is less of a Rare Earth episode and more of a rant. And while I don’t expect people to like hearing it, at the time it was certainly something that I felt needed…

This Tribe Went to War For a Truly Disgusting Reason

From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) I was reading a history book about Pohnpei called "Upon a Stone Altar" and it had a single page describing the four day purge they undertook before battle. It enthralled me so much I made this entire video based off that single page’s prompt. If you’re disgusted,…

Nan Madol: The Great Megalith Island City

From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) One day later than our usual Saturday release, sorry about that we’re trying to work while filming in Crete and the infrastructure of my hotel choice is leaving much to be desired. Outside of the wifi uploading issues they shut off our water so I haven’t been…

How Willy Became a King in Micronesia

From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) The answer is pretty simple really: Have your grandparents marry someone in line for a throne in Micronesia and then act responsibly towards Pohnpeian culture your entire life. But stick with me here, because this story is deeper than the clickbait implies. (just a reminder that this…

America’s First Tattooed European

From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Ah, coming home after being enslaved since your late teens only to have your own society condemn you as satanic for what they did to you and then be forced to headline a traveling freakshow until you died. No matter where you go, the tattoos always speak…

The Worst Monster to Ever Sail the Pacific

From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) This video was inspired by a restaurant that was named after a man I’d never heard of. A man who it turns out is Kosrae’s most famous historical figure. A man who the more I learned about the more I began to wonder if we should remember…

Who is Destroying this Jungle in Micronesia?

From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) I made this episode because I sat down with two men over dinner and grilled them about some local xenophobic rumours I’d been hearing about them. Now we’re mangrove brothers. Although I’m not sure they know that. This one is a bit of a breather episode. If…

Tojo’s Timebomb: How Japan’s WW2 Ghost Fleet Still Threatens the World (And Might End Up Saving It)

From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) In an alternate universe I named this episode ‘the morbid microbial oil morgue’. Your support keeps us going: https://www.patreon.com/rareearth and https://ko-fi.com/rareearth Follow our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rareinsta/ Follow my twitter: https://twitter.com/Evan_Hadfield Also – sign up for curiosity stream, a service I actually like, and they’ll throw in a subscription…

The Island Where Women Ate Their Husbands

From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) It’s virtually impossible to find accurate and trustworthy information about Micronesia on the internet. But on the plus side, that meant Kata and I were able to read virtually every single bit of university-level documentation about Chuuk that currently exists online today. Today’s episode stems from perhaps…

Chuuk Lagoon’s Skull Problem

From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Back in action after what feels like an eternity with many new seasons to share. Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Austria, Japan and Peru, plus a few others along the way. Enough for over a year and a half uninterrupted, I think. Today’s episode is the first in our…

How to Save Fajar

From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Fajar asked us to make this video. It was more important to him than even a piano. I hope you can feel through the screen a little of what it meant to us to be able to make this, even from such a distance. I cannot express…

The Long Forgotten Secret of the Dead Sea

From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) A very short season in Jordan begins here, from a vacation day in the Dead Sea with a bit of a throwaway episode. I thought it might be a nice palate cleanser before we head into the refugee camps that were my real destination in the country.…

Is An Ancient Civilization Sunk Below the Azores?

From “Rare Earth”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Like the Nazis it inspired, seems like you can never keep Atlantis down for long enough. This isn’t really a rare earth episode but given that the Azorean season was about myths and the comments on our previous videos all broke my brain, here we are. A…