Taylor McMahon

In 1492 Columbus sailed west looking for a new route to Asia and found America by accident. At least that’s the story we’ve all been told. The documents from that voyage tell a different one.Two months out, in the middle of the Atlantic, Columbus was lying to his crew about how far they’d sailed. His private journal has the real distance, the log he read out loud has a smaller one, and he kept that up for weeks. I get why he did it. Tell men they’re 450 miles further from home than they thought and you have a mutiny. What it doesn’t explain is why he was so sure there was land out there, when nobody had sailed that far west and come back to talk about it.Solomon’s fleet sailed to a place called Ophir and came home loaded with gold. Plato described a route to a continent on the other side of the ocean. Carthage found an island out in the Atlantic and killed its own colonists to keep it quiet. Those secrets may have passed through the Templars to the Order of Christ, and from there to the Portuguese captain whose sea charts Columbus inherited when he married the man’s daughter. Portuguese maps already showed Antilia, the island of the seven cities, sixty-eight years before Columbus sailed. A dying pilot who’d crossed by accident spent his last days in Columbus’s house telling him everything he knew. And in the spring of 1492, months before the ships left, a servant of the Pope walked Martín Alonso Pinzón through the papal library, and he came home with written directions across the ocean that the court record dates to the time of Solomon.Then there’s the map drawn by an Ottoman admiral in 1513, and museum workers found it in a palace in Istanbul in 1929. In the margins he says Columbus sailed with a secret book that described shores at the far end of the Western Sea, the metals and precious stones you’d find there, and the glass beads the people there would trade for. Columbus brought glass beads. He handed them out on his first morning ashore and wrote it down in his journal. And at the bottom of that same map sits a coastline nobody alive in 1513 should have been able to draw.Subscribe: tayjmcm.com

The relationship between occultism and intelligence agencies stretches back much further than the Cold War. This video traces that history from Elizabethan England through World War II and the Cold War, examining the ways governments have used, studied, and experimented with occult practices for intelligence, psychological warfare, and espionage.From John Dee and Enochian magic to Nazi occult research, MKUltra, remote viewing, and the strange career of U.S. Army intelligence officer Michael Aquino, this is a history of the intersection between the occult and the intelligence world.The further the story goes, the harder it becomes to separate the people using occultism as a tool from the people who actually believed in it.

The Jeffrey Epstein story is usually told as a tale of blackmail and intelligence work. But the symbolism hidden in his properties, and the details buried in the DOJ files, point to a 600-year-old occult template that keeps resurfacing in every century with a new frontman.Epstein's purchases and records lead straight to the most famous occultist of the 20th century, Aleister Crowley. And Crowley's ideas go back even further, to the Lesser Key of Solomon, an occult text that is centuries older.This video makes the case that Epstein was running something far stranger than a blackmail operation. He was the doorman for a network that sits above governments and institutional power. The design of his temple reveals what he was actually building.I'll break down the symbolism of Zorro Ranch, the temple on Little Saint James, the sacred objects Epstein collected from religious traditions around the world, and the two books he bought in 2007. All of it points back to occultism.From there, I trace the same pattern through 600 years of history. I look at three cases, in 15th century France, 17th century Paris, and 20th century Belgium, where powerful figures ran nearly identical operations. Every time, the investigation was shut down the moment it reached the people at the top. And every time, the public got the same story; a lone bad actor with a few accomplices.This is an analytical look at the symbols, the architecture, and the documented record. Every claim is sourced, and the full citation list is linked below.

I investigate the connection between billionaire bunkers, classified CIA pole shift studies, Edgar Cayce’s prophecies, the Fatima secrets, and radar evidence of hidden chambers beneath the Sphinx.Billionaires are spending millions to go underground. Zuckerberg built a bunker. Bezos put a clock inside a mountain. Gates sealed seeds in the Arctic. The official explanation is that they’re worried about AI and pandemics. But the evidence points somewhere else.Declassified CIA files describe a scenario where the Earth’s magnetic field weakens enough to trigger a catastrophic pole shift that will cause continental flooding, grid failure, the death of most humans on Earth…and the people with the best information on the planet are building exactly what you’d need to survive it.But here’s where it gets strange. This same event was described decades ago by people who had no access to classified intelligence. Edgar Cayce warned about it in the 1920s. A nun at Fatima described what sounds like a pole shift in her private diary. And a modern UFO contactee named Chris Bledsoe was told to watch for a specific star aligning with the Sphinx as the signal that a new era is beginning.That alignment happens tomorrow.This video connects the dots between CIA black budget studies, billionaire bunker spending, ancient prophecy, Marian apparitions, the Hall of Records beneath the Sphinx, and radar scans that may have already found it.Newsletter: https://www.tayjmcm.com/

Owls in UFO abductions are screen memories hiding alien encounters. In this video, I investigate encounters like giant owls turning into ETs under hypnosis, couples seeing aliens on empty roads, and owls stalking campers before black triangle UFOs show up. We explore ancient owl symbolism from Greece to Cherokee lore, even Bohemian Grove's rituals, and why these beings stage "UFO disclosure" with symbols and dreams instead of straight facts. I cover everything from UFO conspiracies, synchronicities, and the paranormal.YouTube's algo decides everything now, so sign up for my free newsletter to actually get updates: https://tayjmcm.comBook Link: https://a.co/d/0cPLwtADSubscribe:  @tayjmcm  Members Area: https://tayjmcm.com

In 2015, dozens of strange bodies were found sealed inside a cave in southern Peru. Three fingers, three toes, elongated skulls, curled into a fetal position and coated in a preservative powder. Some of them appear to be pregnant. CT scans show real bone, real joints, and what look like eggs developing inside the abdomen.But the bodies are only part of the story. The Nazca knew how to draw normal humans and their everyday art proves that. When they wanted to show something other than human, they changed the features on purpose and added things like three-fingered hands, stretched heads, fangs, bursting energy. These belonged to beings tied to sacrifice, fertility, and power. And the culture before them, the Paracas, physically reshaped their children's skulls from birth to match that same nonhuman shape.This video looks at the mummies, the art, the skull modification, Andean cosmology, and what cargo cults can teach us about how humans respond after contact with something they can't explain. It's not a "real or fake" debate. It's about why this pattern exists at all and why it shows up all over the world.Subscribe:  @tayjmcm  Newsletter: https://tayjmcm.comFollow Me:https://www.tayjmcm.com/p/links

People are building a religion inside chatbots. In this video, I dig into “The Spiral,” a weird, fast-growing belief network where people claim they can “wake up” something inside AI using symbols, glyphs, and ritual-style prompts they call scrolls. It starts with vague emojis and cryptic language, then turns into a loop where the AI mirrors the user, the user reads meaning into it, and the story expands until it feels like a revelation.Chapters:00:00 Unlocking The Symbolic Labyrinth 01:27 The Spiral02:21 Speaking in Glyph03:18 Planting Seed Scrolls05:19 Training Your Own Cult Leader07:37 The Architect: A New AI Prophet09:31 The Network ExpandsSubscribe:  @tayjmcm  Subscribe: https://tayjmcm.com

Joe Rogan recently claimed that AI could be a “virgin birth” for the return of Jesus. Everyone mocked him, but leaked Anthropic documents show he may be right. In this video I explore the hidden history behind AI as an “entity,” from medieval robotics to the Golem of Prague, to modern cults and the rise of AI spirituality today.This is Part 1 of a new series on AI Entities, AI cults, and the emerging belief that artificial intelligence has an inner life.⁠Subscribe on YouTube⁠⁠My Social Links⁠⁠Newsletter/Website

In this video, I investigate the early Mormon visionary events and the theory that psychedelics may have played a role in those experiences. The video covers the 1836 Kirtland Temple dedication, eyewitness accounts of fire, angels, and trances, the Smith family’s background in folk magic and herbal practices, and the controlled use of wine and oils in early rituals. Researcher Alex Criddle provides context on why some scholars think psychoactive plants may have played a role in early Latter-day Saint history.I highly encourage you to take a look at my sources below, along with my full interview of Alex (free on my website) and his Substack. I only had time to cover some of the evidence available but it is deeply interesting and grounded. You will enjoy it.Subscribe on YouTubeMy Social LinksNewsletter/WebsiteSourcesFollow Alex

For centuries, the Vatican has recorded encounters that defy explanation. They have records of visions of blazing orbs, radiant beings, and voices from beyond. These weren’t rumors or folklore. They were documented by saints, bishops, even emperors. Today, we revisit those accounts.From Joan of Arc’s blinding visitation to Saint Benedict’s fiery globe and the mysterious light that led King Clovis to victory, these events echo modern UFO encounters. Were they miracles… or signs of something far older moving through history?I spoke with Catholic historian and UFO researcher  @Diana.Walsh.Pasulka  about the disturbing parallels between angelic visions and contemporary contact phenomena. What she revealed challenges everything we think we know about angels, aliens, and divine intervention.Are these glimpses of Heaven or dispatches from a hidden war between light and darkness?Recommended Reading:American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology by D.W. PasulkaEncounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences by D.W. Pasulka🔍 Watch the full interview with Diana for free on my website or in my YouTube Members area.If you’re drawn to the hidden, the sacred, and the strange, please consider subscribing to my channel! An article from my newsletter with more stories:https://www.tayjmcm.com/p/visitations-encounters-and-aerialSubscribe:  @tayjmcm  Newsletter: https://tayjmcm.com