All language subtitles for Ancient Aliens S09E08 The Great Flood

Evidence of a cataclysmic event...

You can see it here, that
this event took place.

Written accounts describing lost cities...

Atlantis had a great advanced civilization.

And mythic tales of gods
punishing humanity...

They decided that they would
destroy all these civilizations.

In ancient cultures throughout the
world, there are numerous stories

of mankind nearly being
destroyed by a great flood.

But could such an event
have actually taken place?

And might it have been caused
by an otherworldly force?

One has to ask the question

"What if Noah was one of
the extraterrestrials?"

Millions of people around the world believe

we have been visited in the
past by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

And if so, might we find evidence
in the stories of "The Great Flood"?

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It is one of the best-known
stories of the Bible,

and variations of this ancient tale can
be found in cultures throughout the world.

From ancient Hindu teachings

and Mesopotamian legends
to Mesoamerican myths,

it is written that the gods
sent a powerful flood to wipe out

all of humanity...

God is angry at human beings,

because human beings have
not been behaving properly;

they have been violating God's laws.

Certainly the most famous

of these is the legend of Noah.

In Genesis, God becomes so disgusted
with the behavior of His creation

that He says He "repenteth of making them"

and He brings forth the deluge.

In stories much older
than the story of Noah,

in the story of Gilgamesh,
the Sumerian legend,

the council of gods brought the flood.

In Plato's writing, Zeus brought the flood.

In Hinduism, God had
instructed that, one day,

the whole Earth will be flooded.

When that happens, you build a boat

and you gather the people, some animals,

and then I will save you.

The story of the Great Flood is
often considered to be mythological.

But similar stories of a
cataclysmic flood can be found

in approximately 1,200 different
cultures around the world,

and many anthropologists say
that because these stories

are so numerous and date
back thousands of years,

it is unlikely that they
originated from a single source.

When we find similar
myths all over the world,

like the myth of the flood,

then we have to ask ourselves

are these things that human
beings came up with independently,

because let's say there was a
great flood in ancient history,

that has been memorialized
in people's mythologies,

because it was such a cataclysmic event

that people looked for a
religious explanation for it.

The fact that there are ancient stories

that speak of the same flood, it
almost leads into that direction that,

at some point, some cataclysm happened

that not just affected one
geographic area of the world,

but the entire planet.

If a cataclysmic flood really did
occur, killing most life on the planet,

what could have caused it?

And is there any physical evidence
to suggest that it actually happened?

Scientists say answers to both questions

may be buried deep beneath the sea.

The Indian Ocean.

According to the five
scientists who make up

the Holocene Impact
Working Group, this area...

900 miles southeast of Madagascar...

is where an enormous asteroid struck
the Earth, thousands of years ago.

This impact may have been so large

that it triggered enormous tsunamis that
flooded inland areas across the region...

an event the local inhabitants would
have perceived as a great flood.

Since so many ancient
cultures have a flood story

or a flood mythology,
this is probably based

in some sort of real event...

and an asteroid landing in the ocean,
in the right place, triggering a tsunami,

would then lead to one
of these major floods.

The Holocene Group says evidence
for a catastrophic asteroid strike

lies in what they believe
is an 18-mile-wide crater

on the floor of the Indian Ocean,

just west of the island of Madagascar.

Holocene Group scientists
believe further evidence

supporting their theory
also lies in what are called

"chevrons"... ancient deposits
of sediment and fossils

in both Madagascar and Australia.

What was so out of place and
unusual about the chevrons

was that they weren't land-based debris.

But, rather, it was the kind of debris
you get from an ocean sea bottom,

things like marine animals, marine fossils.

They've also found what's
really the smoking gun

of any asteroid or comet impact,

and that's micro-beads.
The only way they are formed

is by the extreme heat of
an impact melting the rock,

the rock being thrown
into the air, or water,

and cooling into these nice little spheres.

Similar marine fossils have also been found

on the other side of the world,

at the ancient temple
complex of Puma Punku,

in modern-day Bolivia.

If the Holocene Group's
initial findings prove true,

they could be definitive evidence

that a cosmic strike
caused large-scale flooding

thousands of years ago.

But if an asteroid really was
responsible for a worldwide flood,

scientists say it would
have to have been as large

as the one that led to the
extinction of the dinosaurs,

which measured eight miles wide

and struck the Earth with a force
five billion times more powerful

than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

There are many ancient texts that tell us

that there wasn't just a flood,
but there was also a conflagration,

a period of fire, when
the Earth was bombarded

with firestorms, the
gods bringing them down,

and that this period was
then followed by a flood.

And it would seem that
fragments of this comet

vaporized the ice sheets that
had been covering large parts

of the northern hemisphere
for tens of thousands of years,

sending all of the water
up into the atmosphere,

which then rained down.

Perhaps even for 40 days, 40
nights, like the Bible tells us.

According to those scientists
who subscribe to this theory,

the fires that might have occurred

just before the flood would have
left behind an ash layer in the Earth,

all over the world.

This distinctive ash layer... which
scientists call the Usselo Horizon...

could be the ultimate proof that
the Great Flood really occurred.

And researchers believe
they may have discovered it.

Just outside the small
Belgian town of Lommel,

author and researcher Andrew
Collins follows local archeologist

Ferdi Geerts to the site of a
mysterious black layer of soil

excavated by a mining company.

I can already see a black
layer, um, in the soil here.

It's about just under a-a meter
down, um, three to four feet,

um, and, um, are we looking
here at the Usselo Horizon?

- Yes.
- Is this, is this it?

At the end of the ditch
we see, uh, a peat layer.

Yeah.

At the top of the peat layer,
there is, uh, some charcoal.

Right. So, can-can we
go down and look at this?

Yes.

Collins and Geerts get a closer
look, which allows them to determine

that this dark layer of soil seems to
date to the end of the last ice age,

about the same time the Usselo Horizon

is supposed to have formed.

If we come down from the,
from the-the surface here,

which is obviously the modern
day, there is this accumulation

of sand over a period
of around 13,000 years,

that takes us back to this point here.

- The black is a layer, eh?
- Yeah.

- And the-the white is sand.
- Yeah.

- We call that a soil horizon.
- Okay.

According to Geerts, this black
layer dates back to the time period

when a global flood may
have devastated Earth.

But what is it made of?

Collins and Geerts dig into the soil and
discover that it is, indeed, charcoal.

This is the Usselo Horizon, and
to Collins, it's confirmation

that the catastrophe described
in the Bible was real.

This is physical evidence of
that flood, of that conflagration.

This is your absolute evidence

that this event took place. This
is the evidence of the cataclysm.

Could the Usselo Horizon,

a possible impact crater
in the Indian Ocean

and sea fossils at Puma Punku all
be proof that the ancient story

of a great flood is not a myth, but
that it is based on actual events?

And if so,

could the rest of the story, in which God
sent a flood to annihilate the human race,

be true as well?

This suggests that a great
flood did, in fact, happen;

that it was real.

But then it also presents us
with an intriguing possibility.

It is entirely possible

that there is an extraterrestrial
origin to this terrible flood.

Could it be that the Great Flood

described in so many ancient texts

really did occur at the
end of the last Ice Age?

And if so, could it have been brought on

by extraterrestrial beings?

Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes, and claim that evidence of this

can be found at the top of one of
the world's most sacred mountains.

Laurel, Maryland. October 2014.

At Johns Hopkins University, top
scientists from all over the world

gather for the first International Asteroid
Impact Deflection Assessment Workshop.

The focus of this event is to demonstrate

the latest technology designed for
diverting the course of asteroids

headed for a collision with Earth.

The proposed method involves
launching a spacecraft

to collide with the asteroid at a velocity

nine times faster than
the speed of a bullet

fired from an AK-47.

If we look at the dinosaurs, for example,

65 million years ago...

they were wiped out due to
the impact of a giant rock

that wiped out everything
on planet Earth at the time.

And so, right now, scientists around
the globe are working tirelessly

to redirect asteroids from
possible collisions with Earth.

In addition to using direct impact
to knock an asteroid off course,

scientists have also looked
into the possibility of creating

a gravity tractor that
could actually manipulate

the trajectory of the object.

But if we are close to developing
this kind of technology today,

is it possible that
extraterrestrials who visited Earth

in the distant past already possessed
the ability to redirect asteroids?

And if so, might they have used
this technology not to deflect

an asteroid away from
Earth... but towards it?

We are talking about technology

that equals ours today, or as some
have said, that it actually surpasses

whatever it is that we've
achieved so far in our modern age.

And so, if we can control

the trajectories of asteroids,
to direct them away from Earth,

then it's certainly
possible that highly advanced

extraterrestrials could have
had the technology to direct

an asteroid towards Earth.

It's interesting how the legends
described how the flood came.

It is stated that a great
meteor or comet or something

was to swing around from
behind the sun, and as such,

rip the oceans out of their bodies.

The flood was clearly contrived.

It was sent by higher powers
to correct things here on Earth.

They had an intent and a
purpose for Experiment Earth,

which they believe had become
corrupted, and therefore

the flood was sent as an
attack, an assault upon humanity.

If the Great Flood was
a real, historical event,

could it have been deliberately
caused by otherworldly beings

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

But if so, why?

What might they have
been trying to destroy?

Mount Hermon, Lebanon. 1869.

Exploring the top of this
historic mountain range,

British archeologist
General Sir Charles Warren

discovers the sacred
temple of Qasr Antar...

believed to be the highest place
of worship in the biblical world.

Sir Charles Warren hiked up
to the top of Mount Hermon.

The ruins of this temple
are there. And there he found

an ancient stele and he broke
this stele into two pieces

and brought it back to the British Museum.

When scholars translated
the Greek text, it read

"According to the command
of the greatest and holy God,

those who take an oath proceed from here."

The inscription's significance was lost
on archeologists for more than a century,

until biblical scholar George
Nicklesburg connected it

to an oath mentioned in
the ancient Book of Enoch.

According to Enoch, Mount Hermon
is where a band of renegade

angels known as the Watchers
descended from the heavens in

the distant past and took an
oath before meeting with humans.

In the time before time, the
sons of God came down to Earth.

They were the shining ones,
the Enohim, or fallen angels.

And they found the women

very attractive and they married
the women or bonded with the women.

The offspring of these unnatural unions

between angels and humans were
said to produce giant hybrid beings

called the Nephilim, and God was
so disgusted by their existence

that he decided to send a great
flood to cleanse the Earth of them.

But how is it that human women were
able to be impregnated by angels?

Could it be, as ancient
astronaut theorists suggest,

that the Book of Enoch is not
actually describing angels,

but rather a different
kind of otherworldly being?

You've got to wonder

what was really going on here?
Are extraterrestrials coming

and now breeding with humans,
which was somehow forbidden

and wrong, but they did it anyway?
So the other extraterrestrials

decided, "This is a big mistake. Now
we've got to destroy all these people."

Could the story of the Great
Flood actually be describing

extraterrestrials coming to Earth long
ago, and interbreeding with human women

to create a mutant race of giants?

Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes, and claim further evidence

can be found by examining ruins
that are believed to date back

thousands of years before our
earliest known civilizations.

The Gulf of Khambhat, India. 2001.

Scientists working some
25 miles from shore,

and 125 feet below the surface,
stumble across something extraordinary,

what appears to be the signs
of an ancient civilization.

Recently, the marine archeologists of India

have discovered two cities
in the Bay of Khambhat.

They are still working on it, uh, you
know, going down there and archiving it

and taking photographs and videos.

They think that these cities were
destroyed in a geological change

that happened many thousands of years ago.

But you have to wonder,
yourself, if there are not more

sunken cities all around India.

Their own legends and
myths say exactly that.

The ruins found beneath the
ocean in the Gulf of Khambhat

are thought to date back at least 9,000
years, to the time when some researchers

believe a comet struck the
Earth and caused a global deluge.

Could these submerged cities not
only be evidence that the Great Flood

really did occur, but also that
it wiped out an advanced society

that existed long before the
earliest known human civilization?

Scientists say further
evidence can be found

in archeological sites around the world

that date back to end of the last ice age.

In southeastern Turkey lies Gobekli
Tepe, an extraordinary series of circular

stone structures with intricately carved
pillars weighing as much as 50 tons.

Radiocarbon dating indicates parts of
the complex were built about 10,000 BC,

and at least one archeologist
believes there are signs

it may have been destroyed by a flood.

We have evidence there of
catastrophic destruction;

of pillars being knocked over
at the end of the last ice age;

that things were very severe, people
were trying to rebuild it at the time.

Eventually, they effectively gave
up and covered over the entire site,

maybe to come back later to uncover it,

maybe to simply bury it for posterity.

In the rain forests of Indonesia is
a series of terraces, walls and steps

on a hill that the
locals call Gunung Padang.

When scientists drilled into
the Earth to determine its age,

they discovered the site
dates back to at least 9700 BC.

Very interestingly, one of
the layers of Gunung Padang

that's been exposed seismically shows that

there was an entrance to a
cave at about 9700 or so BC

that was subsequently covered over.

Again, I think this ties in with the
events at the end of the last ice age.

People were going into
caves, they had to escape,

and then things were
covered over after that.

Are these ruins that are
found across the world

evidence of an advanced civilization
that existed before a global deluge?

And if so, might we find
mention of it in ancient myths?

If we go back to ancient
Greece, one of the myths,

one of the sacred narratives that
Plato preserves is the narrative that

there used to be a great
continent, which he calls Atlantis.

And Atlantis had a great,
advanced civilization.

Atlantis was one of the
continents that was destroyed

by the Great Flood.

When does he date Atlantis? To 9600 BC,

which is very close to the modern
date of the end of the last ice age.

So all this, I believe, ties together

that we had an earlier
cycle of civilization.

It was devastated at the end of the
last ice age by natural catastrophes.

Humanity was driven into a dark age that
lasted thousands and thousands of years,

until civilization reemerged
about 5,000 years ago.

Is it possible that the story of Atlantis

is really describing a civilization

that existed before 10,000
BC, when the Great Flood

and the end of the ice age
are said to have happened?

Did Atlantis suffer the
same fate as Gobekli Tepe,

Gunung Padang and many
other ancient structures

that appear to have been hit
by some catastrophic event?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes, and suggest

that the most compelling evidence can
be found not with what was destroyed,

but with what survived.

Qumran, Palestine. 1946.

In the desert, ten miles east of Jerusalem,

a Bedouin shepherd leaves his flock
of sheep and goats to look for a stray.

Walking along the cliffs, the
shepherd spots a cave in the distance.

He threw a stone into a cave

and he heard the crack
of breaking pottery...

So he went in to investigate,
and found jars that contained

ancient manuscripts.

The Bedouin shepherd's find
led to a discovery of 11 caves

that contained the most
extraordinary cache of literature,

arguably, in human history...
the Dead Sea Scrolls.

There are 800 pieces of literature found

in these 11 caves and it tells us
so much about the ancient world.

One of the amazing revelations
is the story about Noah

that we don't see in the Old Testament,
and the story is that when Noah is born,

he's an extraordinary baby
with a strange complexion

and the ability to light
up the room with his eyes.

What's interesting is that

you actually have Noah's father,
Lamech, questioning whether or not

Noah is his son.

And this is due to the fact that

we have this story
about these fallen angels

that came down and had sex with women.

Lamech confronts his wife, Batenosh,

"Is it my son or is it,
is it one of theirs?"

Noah's exterior is
described as very foreign.

His eyes are described to
be glowing like sunbeams;

his skin is glowing, as well.

Now that's a very bizarre description,
and so, one has to ask the question,

"What if Noah was one of
the extraterrestrials?"

Could it be, as ancient
astronaut theorists suggest,

that the Biblical figure
of Noah was, in fact,

an alien being?

Is this the reason he is described

as having a strange
complexion and glowing eyes?

The key thing that's going on with Noah

is that he is pure in God's
sight, and so is his family.

And this purity seems
to be genetic, as much as

what you might call spiritual.
And so, when God makes plans

to wipe out the rest of
humanity, what he's wiping out is

the extraterrestrial dimension of humanity

that has come about through
the pollution of human genetics.

Could extraterrestrials have sent

the Great Flood to cleanse
the Earth of genetic mistakes,

and make Noah the father of
a new version of humankind?

According to ancient stories,

the world that Noah's descendants
were born into was very different

from the one that existed in pre-flood
times, when gods, giants, fairies,

and other creatures were said
to share the planet with humans.

The flood does seem to
serve as a demarcation point.

In the Bible, we read
about how, before the flood,

people had longer lives, but then,
after the flood, shorter lives.

We see the same thing in
Mesopotamian tradition,

with the Sumerian King List,
where, before the flood,

we have kings that ruled in Mesopotamia,
with extraordinarily long lives.

After the flood, the lengths of reigns
of these kings becomes much shorter.

The other thing that happened
before this Great Demarcation

is that the gods were present among
us. There was a close interaction

between the human and the sacred.

The gods would guide us
and they would be tempted.

There would be interaction,
the god might marry a mortal

and then there would be
descendants of the gods.

Now the gods seem so far away.
So, there are these theories

that this was the big shifting
point in human history.

It is really interesting to note

that the interaction
with these higher beings

seems to only be located in the past.

All these depictions of "there
were giants upon the Earth."

Or a time when man interacted with
the gods. Where are the gods today?

We only seem to have subtle interactions.

It's curious to think
why that might have been.

What was it about this Great
Flood, this dividing line

in history, that caused the
separation of god and man?

It could be that our
evolution depended upon

a natural upbringing, an
upbringing that was not contaminated

by this notion that we're
not alone in the universe.

It could be a necessary part
of the human development.

Uzengili, Turkey. 1997.

More than 7,000 feet up, near
the country's eastern border,

an American explorer
searching for Noah's Ark,

named David Allen Deal,
stumbles upon the ruins

of an ancient settlement.

There is an extraordinary
archaeological site

in the Anatolian plateau,
in Turkey, called Naxuan,

and Naxuan comes from an ancient
word that means "Noah's Zion,"

the city of God that Noah built.

Mount Ararat, which is
the legendary resting place

of Noah's Ark, is very close
by, so it makes a lot of sense

that this could have been the
landing site of the ark and

then this city would
have been built by Noah.

The ancient Armenian historian

Moses of Choren called Naxuan,
"the place of first descent

where Noah and his family
emerged from the ark

and built the first city
or town after the flood."

Could this be the first
settlement in the post-flood world,

the place where Noah lived and died?

Today, this remote area
is largely uninhabited,

but according to explorer David
Deal, a recent archeological dig

reportedly uncovered something remarkable,

the region may contain as
many as a million graves.

There is evidence that people came

from all over the world
to bury their dead here,

for 10,000 years.

The idea is that if you are brought
here to be buried in the site

of this extraordinary prophet, this man
who was chosen by God to be the survivor

of the deluge, that you,
too, would be resurrected

because you were in such holy company.

According to some
researchers, if this is indeed

the place where Noah began
the repopulation of the Earth,

then the Ark must be nearby as well.

In the Book of Genesis,

we read about how God
commanded Noah to build an ark.

And the measurements of
this ark are quite large.

The dimensions usually given are
about 450 feet long by 75 feet wide

by about 45 feet high.

Such a boat of these dimensions
was never seen in the ancient world,

and in fact, not until the 19th century
was there ever a boat of this size.

In 2009, a Dutchman named Johan Huibers

started building a full-size
version of Noah's ark

using the instructions
laid out in the Bible.

It took him three years and more than a
million dollars to complete the project.

But while the ship seems perfectly
designed to ride out a torrential storm,

many say it's still far too small

to literally hold two of every
animal species on the planet

It would seem pretty clear
that Noah did not scoop up

every form of life on Earth
and put it into the Ark.

And so as a means of saving
all life-forms on Earth,

uh, this is not possible, not believable.

But ancient astronaut theorists suggest

there might be another way
in which the ark was able

to preserve two of every creature on Earth,

as stated in the Bible.

Let's look at it from a
technological perspective.

The only way that you can
create an ark like Noah created,

according to what we can
read in the Old Testament,

is if you collect DNA samples.

So, what if the ark was a metaphor or
a symbol for some type of a DNA bank?

Did the ark described in the story of Noah

really exist? And if so, might it have been

not a vessel to carry two
of every animal species,

but a DNA bank, built to hold the genetic
information of all life on our planet?

What one might read into this is
that some kind of special DNA bank

was to be created; that animal
DNA, plant DNA, and human DNA

for that matter, were all to
be preserved somehow in an ark

that was to float through the
flood and this catastrophe.

Is it possible that all
of humanity is descended

from Noah's genetic lineage...
a new species that replaced

the indigenous people
who once existed on Earth?

And all that remains of
this once great society

are the giant slabs of rock that were
too big to be washed away by the flood?

And if so, might we be destined
to suffer the same fate?

Perhaps further clues can be
found by looking at our own

modern-day version of Noah's Ark.

Spitsbergen, Norway.

On this remote archipelago,
not far from the Arctic Ocean,

lies the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Known as the "doomsday vault,"

this repository for the DNA
of plants, animals, and humans

can withstand nearly any
cataclysm, including a flood,

an earthquake, or a nuclear blast.

The Svalbard Seed Bank is a
structure or a facility that's sunk

into the permafrost.

It's essentially an international
effort to deposit as many seeds,

and particularly seeds
of crop plant varieties,

to help to preserve genetic diversity.

With the doomsday vault, are we
creating our own modern-day ark...

One that, instead of housing two
of every living creature on Earth,

will house the seeds of
every kind of plant life?

The Svalbard Seed Vault has been designed

with some sort of cataclysm in
mind. The idea is that in the event

of some catastrophic event,
it would still stay cold and

preserve seeds for thousands of years.

It's sort of this last
hope for genetic diversity.

The Svalbard is just one of
several biological storehouses

located around the world.
England's Millennium Seed Bank

is even larger, while the U.S.
federal government has built

a similar facility in
Fort Collins, Colorado.

Scientists say one reason
for these repositories

is that another large asteroid...
similar to the one that is believed

to have caused the Great Flood...
will eventually strike Earth.

It's just a matter of time.

You always have the risk, and of
course we've seen it here on Earth,

of having large asteroids
or comets hit the planet

and cause tremendous ecological damage.

Right now, all our genetic
eggs are in one basket.

Whether it's a comet or asteroid
hitting us, we are in jeopardy.

In February of 2013,

an asteroid large enough to
take out all of New York City

came within 18,000 miles of Earth.

Another has been predicted
to strike the Earth

sometime in the next 20 years.

But if a great flood or some other
global catastrophe were to occur today,

are we prepared to survive it?

And if there really are extraterrestrial
beings watching over the Earth,

are they likely to be the
cause of such a cataclysm?

Or will they simply be
observers, sitting quietly by

and letting nature take its course?

If extraterrestrial gods are there

watching us and, either
aware of future catastrophes

or are capable of making them themselves,

then perhaps we need
to be prepared for that.

We live in a precarious point

where, at any time, we could
go through another catastrophe.

And you have to ask yourself if
the extraterrestrials themselves

may not create that.

One of the explanations for
why extraterrestrials might seek

to destroy humankind is because
they treat us as their property.

They treat us as their offspring.

And they're able to make
decisions about humanity

based on their needs.
So perhaps their needs

were satisfied and they decided they
didn't want humankind around anymore,

so it's just as easy to
wipe them out as it is

to continue to perpetuate their existence.

The evolution of humans

on this planet has been completely
and totally an experiment

on the part of extraterrestrials.

If survival is the bottom line,

they are trying to get us
over some kind of a finish line

when we're still alive.

Our survival was ensured
by extraterrestrials,

way back in the remote past, because
we are their direct offspring.

We are their product.

They, in fact, have a vested
interest in our survival.

Are we the descendants of
an extraterrestrial ancestor

named Noah, who was sent to repopulate
the Earth after the Great Flood?

And if so, are there extraterrestrials
watching over us, even to this day?

Not to destroy us, but simply
to see if we can prevail

over the Earth's next great cataclysm?

It is a question we may not
have much time to think about

except to consider how much
or how many will survive.

= synced and corrected by Shahrazade =
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