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Luke Caverns

9 field series

The notebooks

Some stories take more than one video. Each series is a notebook: start at volume one, or open any page.

Vol. 01 · 2025 to 2026

The First Explorers

The word-for-word, firsthand accounts of the explorers who reached these places first, brought back to life.

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  1. 01The First Explorers of the Amazon: Evidence of Lost Civilizations in South America
  2. 02The First Explorers of Machu Picchu: Megalithic City in the Clouds
  3. 03The First Explorers of Dodo Island: Discovery & Extinction of the Dodo Bird
  4. 04The First Explorers of the Olmecs: A Truly Lost Civilization
  5. 05The First Explorers of the Osirion: Egypt’s Buried Megaliths
  6. 06The First Explorers of the Amazon, Olmecs, & more! (3 hour Supercut)

Vol. 02 · 2023 to 2025

Jungle of Stone

Luke and filmmaker Elijah Dean go off the tourist map in the Maya jungles of Campeche and Quintana Roo, looking for pyramids nobody has dug up.

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  1. 01What Ancient life was like living in a Maya Pyramid
  2. 02Giant Pyramid complex BURIED in the jungle?
  3. 03Climbing the Great Pyramid of Becan
  4. 04Why it's (almost) impossible to find a Lost City
  5. 05Exploring an Ancient Mayan Palace hidden in the Jungle
  6. 06Ancient Megaliths you've NEVER seen before (Central America & Mexico)

Vol. 03 · 2026

Extinctions Through Time

Six episodes with Colossal Biosciences on the discovery, extinction and possible return of the dire wolf, the mammoth, the moa, the dodo, the thylacine and the bluebuck.

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  1. 01The Extinct Dire Wolves of North & South America
  2. 02Humans never found the Last Mammoths on this frozen Siberian island...
  3. 03New Zealand's Giant Moa... & the Explorers who found them
  4. 04The 1598 Discovery that Changed History Forever
  5. 05The Last Tasmanian Tigers... & the Explorers who saw them
  6. 06How the Rarest Animal in Africa Disappeared in 1799

Vol. 04 · 2026

American Wilds

The unknown and forgotten history of the Americas. The frontier, the wildlife and the explorers who saw them.

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  1. 01The Extinct Appalachian Jaguars... that Explorers saw
  2. 02We’ve Finally Found Magellan’s Lost Colony in South America
  3. 03Colombia’s Forgotten City… that Conquistadors never found
  4. 04The 1805 Expedition That Encountered America's Deadliest Apex Predator
  5. 05Appalachian Cougars shouldn't exist... but do they?
  6. 06We're Finally Finding Lost Cities in the Amazon