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Ancient mysteries, field notes, and stubborn questions.

The gist

Brothers of the Serpent follows Russ Allen and Kyle Allen through ancient architecture, lunar oddities, dragon traditions, and field-trip aftermath. The mood is curious and rowdy, with serious research sharing space with live-chat chaos, winery updates, and jokes that wander into the point.

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About Brothers of the Serpent

Brothers of the Serpent is a talky, digressive, enthusiast-led search for strange patterns in ancient history, archaeology, astronomy, and myth. Russ Allen and Kyle Allen are the named Brothers of the Serpent, and their rhythm is closer to a workshop conversation than a studio lecture. The show starts loose. There may be live-stream setup trouble, a chat window that refuses to dock, harvest work at the winery, travel fatigue, or a joke before the subject fully arrives. Then the conversation locks onto a question and keeps turning it from different angles. Episodes range from lunar anomalies to dragon kings, Sacsayhuaman, flood traditions, prehistoric pillars, Giza pyramid scans, and precision artifacts from Egypt. The moon episode works through reports of crater glows, flashes, color changes, and central peaks that seem to disappear. The dragon material brings in Professor Shy for a run through serpent-like rulers, fish-headed figures, scales, helmets, goggles, and old stories that may be symbolic, technological, or both. The Peru coverage is unusually tactile. Stones, nubs, jagged retaining walls, and andesite courses are treated as design choices that reveal how ancient builders solved hard physical problems. Egypt sits near the center of the show. The hosts discuss Gobekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe, Helwan points, limestone cutting, scanned vases, pyramid shafts, spiral structures, and the contested meaning of SAR-based imagery beneath the Giza Plateau. Interviews add another mode, especially with Adam Young of the Artifact Foundation and with Filippo and Armando around pyramid scanning. The editorial stance is not cautious academic summary. It is a curious, sometimes blunt conversation about anomalies, evidence, and the places where standard explanations feel incomplete. That makes the show best for listeners who like ancient-world speculation with real site details, not just vague mystery branding. It is also very much a hangout show. The live chat, recurring sign-offs, technical mishaps, travel stories, and in-jokes are part of the texture. The result is messy in a deliberate way: serious enough to follow data and artifacts, informal enough to let uncertainty stay visible.

Made for: For listeners who like ancient-civilization mysteries, archaeological anomalies, mythic traditions, lunar oddities, and long conversational reasoning. It especially fits people who enjoy field anecdotes and technical details without a polished lecture tone.

What sets it apart: The show mixes hands-on travel reports from places like Peru and Egypt with live, banter-heavy analysis of scans, stonework, artifacts, and old astronomical reports. Its strength is the blend of informal chemistry and obsessive attention to physical details.

In their own words

Two brothers explore the mysteries of the ages, the ancients, and the modern day.

Why you'd press play

The moon starts flashing, the tomb stays missing, and your inner armchair archaeologist cancels bedtime.

Press play if you want

  • to puzzle over ancient stonework before the speculation gets delightfully strange
  • firsthand travel observations from Sacsayhuaman, Egypt, and Turkey, with room for chat-window chaos
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Episodes

  1. 1

    UK and the Petrie Museum

    ·1h 50m
  2. 2

    Episode #371: Dragons and Dragon Kings - Dragons Part 2

    ·1h 56m
  3. 3

    Khafre Scans, Ancient Egypt, Giza Plateau - SnakeBros Live

    ·2h 2m
  4. 4

    Egypt, 411, Cosmology, and Other Mysteries - SnakeBros Live

    ·2h 4m
  5. 5

    Ancient Vases, Precision, Listener Comms Live

    ·2h 9m
  6. 6

    Dragons of Legend with Matt Shy

    ·2h 2m
  7. 7

    Episode #366: Ancient Mysteries, Quantum Physics, Weird Universe - Listener Comms Live

    ·2h 40m
  8. 8

    The Cosmic Language of Ancient Civilizations - Jason Quitt

    ·2h 18m
  9. 9

    Live Listener Comms - Cosmology and Spirituality

    ·2h 30m
  10. 10

    Live - Mysteries of Peru - Sacsayhuaman

    ·1h 59m
  11. 11

    Episode #362: The Marvels of Britain

    ·2h 17m
  12. 12

    Episode #361: Flood Myths and the Vaults of Hermes

    ·1h 36m
  13. 13

    Episode #360: SnakeBros Live - Aliens, Black Holes, Harvest

    ·1h 58m
  14. 14

    Episode #359: The Quest for King Arthur

    ·2h 10m
  15. 15

    Pyramid Scanning - Unveiling the Secrets of the Giza Plateau

    ·1h 47m
  16. 16

    SnakeBros Live - Texas Floods, Vase Scanning, Ancient Mysteries

    ·2h 24m
  17. 17

    God's Eye View - The Physics of Consciousness

    ·2h 18m
  18. 18

    Wandering the Road with Seriah

    ·1h 31m
  19. 19

    Pyramids and Cart Ruts

    ·2h
  20. 20

    The Invention of Glass - Exploring Artifacts of Ancient Egypt with Dan Friday

    ·2h 13m
  21. 21

    The Khafre Data with Marc Young

    ·2h 27m
  22. 22

    The Myth of Osiris

    ·2h 11m
  23. 23

    Episode #349: The Khafre Enigma - Roadsode with UnchartedX

    ·2h 10m
  24. 24

    Episode #348: Precision in Ancient Egypt - The Artifact Foundation with Adam Young

    ·1h 39m
  25. 25

    Episode #347: SnakeBros Live! Cataclysms, Physics, and Spirituality - Listener Comms

    ·2h 10m
  26. 26

    Scanning Ancient Egypt - with Karoly Poka

    ·1h 52m
  27. 27

    Mountains & Megaliths Part 2 - with UnchartedX

    ·2h 20m
  28. 28

    Episode #344: Mountains and Megaliths of Peru

    ·2h 19m
  29. 29

    Scanning in Egypt

    ·1h 45m
  30. 30

    Karahan Tepe and the Cosmic Serpent with Andrew Collins

    ·2h 15m
  31. 31

    Battery Technology with James Kaschmitter

    ·2h 24m
  32. 32

    Scanning Vases and Cores in the Petrie Museum

    ·1h 31m
  33. 33

    Episode #337: Pyramid Constuction and Listener Comms, Live

    ·1h 32m
  34. 34

    Anatomy of the Pyramids

    ·2h 19m
  35. 35

    Missing 411 - North America & Beyond 2

    ·2h 28m
  36. 36

    Immaculate Constellation, Alien Reproduction Vehicles, UFO Disclosure with Marty Garza

    ·3h 5m
  37. 37

    Episode #372: Return to Our Mysterious Moon

    ·1h 36m
  38. 38

    Mysteries of Peru with Luke Caverns

    ·2h 51m
  39. 39

    Missing 411 - North America & Beyond - 1

    ·2h 32m
  40. 40

    Megalithic Star Maps - Part 4

    ·2h 37m
  41. 41

    Modern Metal in Ancient Vases - Update on Vase Research

    ·2h 20m
  42. 42

    Snakebros Live: Assembly Theory

    ·2h 2m
  43. 43

    The Spookiest Story Never Told 5 - UFOs 14

    ·2h 58m
  44. 44

    The Spookiest Story Never Told 4 - UFOs 13

    ·2h 40m
  45. 45

    The Olmec Enigma - Part 2

    ·2h 14m
  46. 46

    Pyramids. Again

    ·1h 56m
  47. 47

    Listener Communications - Live

    ·2h 8m
  48. 48

    Gobekli Tepe - A Treasure of the Ancients [CS24 Presentation]

    ·57m
  49. 49

    Cart Ruts, Quarries, and Megaliths

    ·2h 44m
  50. 50

    Listener Communications

    ·2h 30m
  51. 51

    The Olmec Enigma

    ·2h 33m
  52. 52

    Evidence for Giants - Part 3

    ·2h 14m
  53. 53

    Evidence for Giants - Part 2

    ·2h 15m
  54. 54

    Evidence for Giants - Part 1

    ·2h 28m
  55. 55

    Mysteries of Egypt - Part 2

    ·2h 20m
  56. 56

    Mysteries of Egypt - Part 1

    ·2h 15m
  57. 57

    Megalithic Star Maps - Part 3

    ·2h 30m
  58. 58

    Megalithic Star Maps - Part 2

    ·2h 7m
  59. 59

    Megalithic Star Maps - Part 1

    ·2h 21m
  60. 60

    Listener Communications - Live

    ·2h 11m
  61. 61

    Assembly Theory

    ·1h 35m
  62. 62

    Luke Caverns - Live - Exploring the Ruins of the Ancient Maya

    ·2h 22m
  63. 63

    Listener Communications - Live

    ·2h 23m
  64. 64

    UFOs and the Occult - AMA with Marty Garza

    ·2h 19m
  65. 65

    Precision in Ancient Technology

    ·2h 4m
  66. 66

    The Art of Sound - with Scotty Baldwin

    ·2h 5m
  67. 67

    Airbursts and Cratering Impacts

    ·2h 20m
  68. 68

    Listener Communications - Live

    ·2h 21m
  69. 69

    Tales of the Little People - Part 4

    ·2h 27m
  70. 70

    The 300th Episode

    ·2h 40m
  71. 71

    Akashic Records and Ancestral Magic

    ·2h 25m
  72. 72

    Tales of the Little People - Part 3

    ·2h 15m
  73. 73

    The Spookiest Story Never Told - Part 3

    ·2h 24m
  74. 74

    Tales of the Little People - Part 2

    ·2h 16m
  75. 75

    Tales of the Little People

    ·2h 25m
  76. 76

    Back from Harvest - Listener Communications - Live

    ·2h 6m
  77. 77

    Drilling for Ashes - with Dr. Joanne Ballard

    ·2h 8m
  78. 78

    Listener Communications - Live

    ·2h 6m
  79. 79

    More Gobekli Tepe

    ·2h 12m
  80. 80

    The Spookiest Story Never Told - Part 2

    ·3h 1m
  81. 81

    Cosmic Summit and Listener Comms

    ·2h 13m
  82. 82

    Unfinished - Mysteries of the Megaliths

    ·2h 6m
  83. 83

    Lost Cities of the Maya - With Luke Caverns

    ·2h 20m
  84. 84

    Listener Communications

    ·2h 9m
  85. 85

    Mysteries of Turkey - Part 3 - with UnchartedX

    ·2h 6m
  86. 86

    Mysteries of the Maya

    ·2h 5m
  87. 87

    Mysteries of Turkey - Part 2

    ·2h 13m
  88. 88

    Gobekli Tepe and the Mysteries of Turkey

    ·2h 4m
  89. 89

    More Listener Communications

    ·2h 6m
  90. 90

    Origins of Civilization

    ·2h 29m
  91. 91

    Listener Communications

    ·2h 8m
  92. 92

    Written in Stone

    ·2h 11m
  93. 93

    UFO Swapcast - Marty Garza & Grimerica

    ·2h 7m
  94. 94

    UAP Report - UFOs, Balloons, Conspiracy

    ·2h 17m
  95. 95

    The Path of the Pole - Part 11

    ·2h 10m
  96. 96

    The Path of the Pole - Part 10

    ·2h 10m
  97. 97

    UFOs and the Paranormal

    ·2h 28m
  98. 98

    Prehistoric Pillars of Civilization

    Kyle Allen presents an analysis of stoneworking technology at Gobekli Tepe and its potential connections to Egypt.

    ·1h 21m·5 clips
  99. 99

    Lost Megaliths of Peru with Michael Collins

    The Brothers of the Serpent podcast hosts Michael Collins from Wandering Wolf to discuss his travels and experiences, including a recent trip to Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

    ·1h 43m
  100. 100

    Live with UnchartedX - Cart Ruts, Nemrut, Mysteries of Turkey

    Brothers of the Serpent hosts a live stream with UnchartedX to discuss ancient mysteries in Turkey.

    ·1h 54m·5 clips
  101. 101

    Episode #372: Return to Our Mysterious Moon

    Hidden gem

    Brothers of the Serpent Episode #372 opens with a return from Egypt, including a two-week tour, a six- or seven-day extension, Sharm el-Sheikh, and a stop at KV5.

    Apr 7, 2026·1h 36m·5 clips
  102. 102

    Episode #371: Dragons and Dragon Kings - Dragons Part 2

    Hidden gem

    Brothers of the Serpent Episode #371, 'Dragons and Dragon Kings - Dragons Part 2,' is a live Zoom talk with Professor Shy about rulers, serpent lineage, and dragon kings.

    Apr 6, 2026·1h 56m·5 clips
  103. 103

    Khafre Scans, Ancient Egypt, Giza Plateau - SnakeBros Live

    Feb 20, 2026·2h 2m
  104. 104

    Egypt, 411, Cosmology, and Other Mysteries - SnakeBros Live

    Feb 13, 2026·2h 4m
  105. 105

    Ancient Vases, Precision, Listener Comms Live

    Feb 11, 2026·2h 9m
  106. 106

    Dragons of Legend with Matt Shy

    Jan 16, 2026·2h 2m
  107. 107

    Episode #366: Ancient Mysteries, Quantum Physics, Weird Universe - Listener Comms Live

    Jan 15, 2026·2h 40m
  108. 108

    The Cosmic Language of Ancient Civilizations - Jason Quitt

    Dec 7, 2025·2h 18m
  109. 109

    Live - Mysteries of Peru - Sacsayhuaman

    Hidden gem

    ["Brothers of the Serpent's Peru return episode centers on Sacsayhuaman, where Ben and Kyle talk about roughly 20,000 feet of seams and limestone blocks with calcite layers.", "Ben, Kyle, Chris, and Rogelio come up in the travel recap, with Chris as the beer runner and Rogelio as the guide describing the Chinkana excavation at Sacsayhuaman.", "The show also pauses on Arthur Posnansky's Tiwanaku volumes, found in mint condition on a Bolivian restaurant bookshelf outside Tiwanaku.", "From Cusco, Ollantaytambo, and the Urubamba River bridge to geopolymer, acid treatment, and vibration-lapping ideas, the episode keeps returning to how the stones were actually made."]

    Nov 30, 2025·1h 59m·5 clips
  110. 110

    Live Listener Comms - Cosmology and Spirituality

    Nov 30, 2025·2h 30m
  111. 111

    Episode #362: The Marvels of Britain

    Oct 9, 2025·2h 17m
  112. 112

    Episode #360: SnakeBros Live - Aliens, Black Holes, Harvest

    The hosts of Brothers of the Serpent Podcast discuss technical issues with OBS and welcome listeners to a live stream about aliens, black holes, and harvest.

    Oct 4, 2025·1h 58m
  113. 113

    Episode #361: Flood Myths and the Vaults of Hermes

    The hosts discuss upcoming travel to Peru and archaeological sites like Sacsayhuaman, while reflecting on their current location and wine bottling schedule.

    Oct 4, 2025·1h 36m
  114. 114

    Episode #359: The Quest for King Arthur

    Aug 9, 2025·2h 10m
  115. 115

    Prehistoric Pillars of Civilization

    Hidden gem

    “Where are all the frickin burn?” and why are there so few stone-working tools at Gobekli Tepe?

    Aug 9, 2025·1h 21m·2 clips
  116. 116

    SnakeBros Live - Texas Floods, Vase Scanning, Ancient Mysteries

    Jul 18, 2025·2h 24m
  117. 117

    Pyramid Scanning - Unveiling the Secrets of the Giza Plateau

    Hidden gem

    Filippo Biondi says SAR data can image "up to two kilometers" underground with "20 seconds" of acquisition.

    Jul 18, 2025·1h 47m·2 clips
  118. 118

    God's Eye View - The Physics of Consciousness

    Jun 24, 2025·2h 18m
  119. 119

    Wandering the Road with Seriah

    Jun 15, 2025·1h 31m
  120. 120

    Pyramids and Cart Ruts

    Jun 9, 2025·2h
  121. 121

    The Invention of Glass - Exploring Artifacts of Ancient Egypt with Dan Friday

    Jun 1, 2025·2h 13m
  122. 122

    The Khafre Data with Marc Young

    May 23, 2025·2h 27m
  123. 123

    The Myth of Osiris

    May 14, 2025·2h 11m
  124. 124

    Episode #349: The Khafre Enigma - Roadsode with UnchartedX

    May 1, 2025·2h 10m
  125. 125

    Episode #348: Precision in Ancient Egypt - The Artifact Foundation with Adam Young

    Adam Young, founder of the Artifact Foundation, discusses precision in ancient Egyptian artifacts and his work scanning them.

    Mar 12, 2025·1h 39m
  126. 126

    Episode #347: SnakeBros Live! Cataclysms, Physics, and Spirituality - Listener Comms

    Mar 7, 2025·2h 10m
  127. 127

    Scanning Ancient Egypt - with Karoly Poka

    The Brothers of the Serpent podcast introduces guest Karoly Poka to discuss scanning ancient Egyptian artifacts with the Artifact Foundation.

    Feb 21, 2025·1h 52m
  128. 128

    Mountains & Megaliths Part 2 - with UnchartedX

    Feb 20, 2025·2h 20m
  129. 129

    Episode #344: Mountains and Megaliths of Peru

    Feb 11, 2025·2h 19m
  130. 130

    Lost Megaliths of Peru with Michael Collins

    The host introduces guest Michael Collins from Wandering Wolf, discussing his recent travels and the upcoming topic of lost megaliths in Peru.

    Jan 17, 2025·1h 43m
  131. 131

    Live with UnchartedX - Cart Ruts, Nemrut, Mysteries of Turkey

    Ben and Russ from UnchartedX and Brothers of the Serpent discuss mysteries of Turkey including Nemrut, Sogmatar, and cart ruts in the Phrygian valley.

    Jan 17, 2025·1h 54m
  132. 132

    Scanning in Egypt

    Jan 15, 2025·1h 45m
  133. 133

    Karahan Tepe and the Cosmic Serpent with Andrew Collins

    Dec 24, 2024·2h 15m
  134. 134

    Battery Technology with James Kaschmitter

    Dec 14, 2024·2h 24m
  135. 135

    Scanning Vases and Cores in the Petrie Museum

    Dec 6, 2024·1h 31m
  136. 136

    Episode #337: Pyramid Constuction and Listener Comms, Live

    Dec 6, 2024·1h 32m
  137. 137

    Anatomy of the Pyramids

    Nov 24, 2024·2h 19m
  138. 138

    Missing 411 - North America & Beyond 2

    Nov 16, 2024·2h 28m
  139. 139

    Immaculate Constellation, Alien Reproduction Vehicles, UFO Disclosure with Marty Garza

    Nov 7, 2024·3h 5m
  140. 140

    UK and the Petrie Museum

    Nov 1, 2024·1h 50m
  141. 141

    Mysteries of Peru with Luke Caverns

    Oct 4, 2024·2h 51m
  142. 142

    Missing 411 - North America & Beyond - 1

    Sep 27, 2024·2h 32m
  143. 143

    Megalithic Star Maps - Part 4

    Sep 19, 2024·2h 37m
  144. 144

    Modern Metal in Ancient Vases - Update on Vase Research

    Sep 18, 2024·2h 20m
  145. 145

    Snakebros Live: Assembly Theory

    Sep 18, 2024·2h 2m
  146. 146

    The Spookiest Story Never Told 5 - UFOs 14

    Aug 9, 2024·2h 58m
  147. 147

    The Spookiest Story Never Told 4 - UFOs 13

    Jul 26, 2024·2h 40m
  148. 148

    The Olmec Enigma - Part 2

    Jul 13, 2024·2h 14m
  149. 149

    Pyramids. Again

    Jul 9, 2024·1h 56m
  150. 150

    Listener Communications - Live

    Jul 3, 2024·2h 8m