Randall Carlson
Catastrophist, geomythologist, master builder.
Background
Randall Carlson is a researcher, geologist, and master builder whose work sits at the intersection of formal earth science and the lived tradition of how monuments actually get built. He was born in Minnesota and studied geology at the University of Minnesota before founding his own construction and design company in 1973. For more than five decades he has worked as a master mason and designer of sacred structures, a craft that informs his research in a way most armchair theorists could not match. When Randall walks the Channeled Scablands or stands inside Newgrange, he is reading both the geology and the architecture, and he can tell you why each was built the way it was.
The Younger Dryas investigation
The thread Randall is best known for is his decades of work on the Younger Dryas event. Roughly 12,800 years ago, the Pleistocene ended abruptly. A long warming trend reversed almost overnight, megafauna went extinct across the Americas, the Clovis culture vanished, and the planet plunged back into a millennium of near-glacial cold. The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, advanced by the Comet Research Group of academic geologists and physicists, holds that the trigger was a fragmented comet striking the North American ice sheet. Randall has spent his career documenting the field evidence for that event: the sediment signatures, the microspherules, the platinum and nanodiamonds in the Younger Dryas boundary layer, and most visibly, the staggering scale of the Ice Age megafloods that scoured the Pacific Northwest when continental ice dams collapsed. His on-the-ground work at the Channeled Scablands, Dry Falls, Grand Coulee, and the giant ripple marks of Camas Prairie has done as much as any scientific paper to make the case visually undeniable.
Sacred geometry and ancient architecture
Randall is also a lifelong student of sacred geometry, geomythology, and the architectural traditions of antiquity. He has investigated megalithic sites across the world, including Newgrange, Stonehenge, and Carnac, looking for the encoded mathematics and astronomical alignments that recur across cultures separated by oceans and millennia. His view is that the same catastrophic events recorded in sediment are also recorded in stone, in myth, and in the ritual calendars that ancient cultures built their year around. It is a framing that takes the deep past seriously as something we can read if we know how to look.
Field expeditions
Randall is not a theorist who works from a library. He has led and joined field expeditions on multiple continents, walking the ground to look for evidence of both cataclysmic events and the ancient civilizations that may have survived (or preceded) them. He has traveled extensively in Europe, Egypt, and South America to study megalithic architecture and ice-age geology in person. Most recently he visited the Azores, the mid-Atlantic island chain, to investigate whether it might preserve evidence of the lost civilization Plato called Atlantis. The work is ongoing because the question is not yet settled, and Randall remains one of the very few researchers who is still actively in the field at scale.
Where to find him
Randall reached a wide audience through his appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience, often alongside Graham Hancock, where the long-form conversation format finally gave the catastrophist case the time it needed to land. He now hosts the Squaring the Circle Podcast and posts ongoing updates from his research and expeditions on his YouTube channel at @TheRandallCarlson. On the conference circuit he has lectured at every Cosmic Summit and returned multiple times to the Conference on Precession and Ancient Knowledge (CPAK), among many other gatherings. Anyone who has spent time with him in the field will tell you that the work is the same as it was forty years ago. He is still asking the question that started the whole thing, and he is still walking the ground to find the answer.
Known For
Frequently asked about Randall
- Who is Randall Carlson?
- Randall Carlson is Catastrophist, geomythologist, master builder. Randall Carlson is a researcher, geologist, and master builder who has spent more than four decades documenting evidence for cyclical cosmic catastrophes. His best-known work centers on the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis and the Ice Age megafloods that scoured the Pacific Northwest roughly 12,800 years ago.
- What is Randall Carlson known for?
- Randall Carlson is known for work in Catastrophism, Younger Dryas, Sacred Geometry, Geomythology, Channeled Scablands.
- Where can I find Randall's work?
- Randall Carlson's primary website is https://randallcarlson.com. Randall Carlson is part of TTN, the media network for deep history, science, and consciousness.
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