A 19-foot granite monument stood silent in a rural Georgia field for 42 years, engraved with ten guidelines for surviving the apocalypse. Then, in the dead of night, an unknown bomber blew it to pieces. It is one of the most bizarre mysteries of the modern era.

This episode traces the strange history of the Georgia Guidestones, from a mysterious stranger calling himself R.C. Christian to the explosive end in 2022. It is a case study in human psychology, exploring how an anonymous, unexplainable message became a societal Rorschach test reflecting our deepest fears and divisions.

• How an anonymous client commissioned the $100,000 monument, with the farmer retaining cattle grazing rights on the land
• The astronomical features that one astronomer dismissed as mediocre, comparing them to an abacus
• The infamous first guid ...