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In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Estonian filmmaker and author Mart Sander, whose new book, "Object M: Estonia's Buried Mystery," traces one of the strangest and least understood cases in Europe. In 1969, a man drilling a well in the Tallinn suburb of Merivälja struck something solid roughly seven meters down, and the fragments he broke loose eventually reached Soviet laboratories that concluded the alloy could not have been produced on this planet.
Sander walks Coulthart through the two decades of excavation that followed, the shafts sunk under the garden, the KGB files stamped top secret and the researchers who reported burns, blackouts and stranger effects the closer they got to whatever sits beneath the upper layer. He also lays out the counterarguments, from the meteorite explanation to the claim this is a forgotten first World War superalloy buried in a hurry, and explains why the physical evidence points in two directions more than a 100,000 years apart.
What neither man can account for is why, years after the Soviets left Estonia, two strangers turned up at the homeowner's door with a suitcase of cash for a small suburban house that nobody had ever proven held anything at all.
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CREDITS Host: Ross Coulthart Executive Producer: Andy Gipson Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick Segment Producer: Christine Jenkinson Associate Producer: Will Tomasi Research Producer: Rob Jones Editor: Anthony Diasio
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CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 6:00 A Story That Found Him, and a Hundred Thousand Year Contradiction 7:26 An Ancient Wildlife Camera, and We Are the Wildlife 8:22 Shards of an Outer Layer, and No Way to Reach What Lies Below 11:04 A Word From Our Sponsors 13:10 His Favorite Teacher Lived in the House 14:43 What Two Years of Digging Did to the Family Inside 17:12 Viivika, the Caretaker Paid to Keep the Legend Alive 19:30 Seven Meters Down, Into Soviet Laboratories, and Out of Estonia 24:03 A Claim About Two Occupants 25:37 Aleksander Dejev, the Villain of the Book 29:27 Is It Still There, or Is It Moving Through the Soil 30:13 Nuremberg, April 1561, and the Calculation That Led to Tallinn 34:33 What the Vatican Archives Say 36:03 D Generators in the Basement 39:11 A Swedish Psychic and a Russian File 42:03 Photographs of the Dig, and Nothing of the Object 44:06 Igor Volke's Two Objects 45:58 Bottomless Pockets 47:40 A Meteorite, or a 1917 Superalloy Buried in a Hurry 51:05 Books Flying, and a Dog That Would Not Settle 52:41 Vormsi Enn Says Bury It, and by 1988 They Do 54:54 Even the Hardened Skeptics Agree Something Is Down There 55:41 Japanese Television Arrives 58:48 The Public Discrediting of Aleksander Dejev 1:01:42 A Suitcase of Money 1:04:17 Ross Asks Mart 1:06:10 The Book, the Movie, and an Invitation to the Dig 1:07:22 Coming Up on Reality Check
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