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NARRATOR: Ancient
monuments, deep underwater.

A once-thriving metropolis,
now half a mile under the sea.

Lost cities submerged
for thousands of years.

DAVID CHILDRESS: All over the
world, there are sunken cities.

There's more than 200
known sunken cities

in the Mediterranean alone.

GRAHAM HANCOCK: What
we're looking at

are the remains of cities
at a time when mainstream

archaeology tells us there
were no cities anywhere

in the world.

NARRATOR: Are underwater
monuments examples

of mankind's earliest
civilizations?

Or is there evidence
of skills far

beyond that of primitive
man, and if so, where

did it come from?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
The native legends

are very clear that something
or someone landed, and then

knowledge all of
a sudden spread.

JORGE LUIS DELGADO
MAMANI: There's

many, many legends with lights
coming from under the water.

DAVID CHILDRESS: You start
to get the idea that there's

some kind of ancient
alien underwater base.

NARRATOR: Millions of
people around the world

believe we've been
visited in the past

by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

If so, what evidence
lies deep underwater?

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NARRATOR: Covering more than
71% of the planet, the Earth's

oceans are a vast and
largely unexplored mystery.

For most of recorded
history, man

could only guess at what lay
beneath the ocean surface,

but new technologies
are reaching new depths.

Researchers around
the world are finding

the unexpected,
underwater complexes

and sophisticated
monuments that defy

the conventional
historical record.

MICHAEL CREMO: There are remains
of urban civilizations on parts

of the earth that were exposed
on land 10,000 and more years

ago, and this means that
urban civilization is

far older by many
thousands of years

than many scientists
now believe possible.

NARRATOR: Scientific
theory suggests

that during Earth's
last ice age,

ocean levels were once much
lower than they are today.

GRAHAM HANCOCK: You have to
envisage a world in which there

are two mile deep
ice caps sitting

on top of northern
Europe and North America,

in which are accumulated
enormous quantities of water.

And we know that
this water began

to melt about 21,000
years ago and finished

melting about 10,000 years ago.

NARRATOR: As a result,
rich coastal lands

were slowly submerged
by rising sea levels.

GRAHAM HANCOCK: 10 million
square miles of land

was flooded all
around the world.

That's roughly the size
of Europe and China

added together, were just
rubbed from the record.

They just disappeared from
the story, and in my opinion

archaeology is not
doing enough work

to investigate those
lost and submerged lands.

NARRATOR: While much
of the ocean's floor

remains unexplored,
for thousands of years,

philosophers and
scientists have been

drawn to one of the
greatest mysteries

of the sea, the legend of
the lost city of Atlantis.

DAVID CHILDRESS: It's been
said that more books have been

written about Atlantis
than any other subject,

but most of what we know comes
from the Greek philosopher

Plato, who wrote two
books about Atlantis,

the Timaeus and the Critias.

NARRATOR: Written
in 360 B.C., Plato

described Atlantis as a
highly advanced city, ringed

by concentric walls,
which flourished

9,000 years before his own time.

MICHAEL CREMO: There
are descriptions

of huge palaces for kings.

It's stated that Atlantis
had huge naval forces, which

it used to conquer other
parts of the world.

It was an urban civilization.

According to the
ancient Greek text,

Atlantis was connected
with extraterrestrials

from the beginning.

It was founded by the
Greek God Poseidon.

Poseidon can be regarded
as an extraterrestrial

in a sense of not
being this earth.

ERICH VON DANIKEN: Poseidon,
one of the extraterrestrials

found a pretty wonderful
young woman girl on Earth,

and he took this woman
girl, made her pregnant

and to protect his new
family, he founded Atlantis.

NARRATOR: According to the
legend, after a failed attempt

to invade Athens, disaster
struck the island.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
According to Plato,

Atlantis was destroyed
in a day and a night,

a cataclysmic
destruction that sank

the entire island
and its capital city.

Some researchers believe
that the Atlantians somehow

destroyed themselves.

NARRATOR: According
to Plato, Atlantis

was located in front of
the pillars of Hercules,

a location beyond what
some scholars attribute

to modern Gibraltar.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
And to the ancients,

as they left the Mediterranean
Sea to go into the larger

Atlantic Ocean,
this was where they

went beyond the
pillars of Hercules

between Spain and Morocco.

NARRATOR: Across
the Atlantic lies

the island chain of the Bahamas,
just southeast of Florida.

Here in 1968, archaeologist
J. Manson Valentine

believed he found
part of Atlantis

when he discovered
an unusual rock

formation off the coast
of North Bimini Island.

JOHN VAN AUKEN: It's only in
about 12 to 18 feet of water

so you can view it easily.

At first, scientists thought
this was just beach rock,

but then several other
scientists exploring the Bimini

Road noticed that the beach rock
was on top of other beach rock

with balancing stones
wedged in between.

And they said, nature
doesn't do that.

Man does.

And they realized,
this is a harbor,

a breakwater for a harbor.

From the shallow
edges of Bimini,

all the way to the Gulf
Stream, in 300 feet of water

we have found many
fascinating complexities

that look like remnants of
ancient cities or structures.

Roads, pathways, structures
covered in coral.

NARRATOR: Could the Bimini
ruins be remnants of Atlantis,

and if so, could
these roads lead

to other sites buried
under sand and water?

In the year 2000, while
mapping the seafloor

off the western coast of
Cuba, a research expedition

led by Russian Canadian
oceanographer Paulina Zelitsky

spotted symmetrical
stone structures deep

below the water.

Remarkably, they were
over a half mile down.

PAULINA A. ZELITSKY:
Now we're just

going to do this
kind of investigation

so we have to use
remote operated vehicle.

And this vehicle is
equipped with video cameras

and manipulators,
and it's controlled

from the deck of the ship.

NARRATOR: The
expedition was also

armed with side scan
sonar equipment, used

to create images of
large areas of the sea

floor and underwater objects.

PAULINA A. ZELITSKY: So I was in
control room on board the ship,

and we were receiving that
image coming from side scan.

And this is just one of
the many other images

that we were obtaining
of the 80 structures made

of large stones placed
one on top of another

LINDA MOULTON HOWE: Well,
what do they end up with?

It is an image that shows
these rectangular, 90 degree

angles over and over and over
on very large structures that

seem to have wide avenues.

NARRATOR: The exploration found
huge stone blocks in pyramid

shapes, others more circular.

Most were gigantic,
reaching 16 feet in height

and weighing several tons.

30 geometric structures
emerged, appearing

to be the remains of
streets, buildings, tunnels,

and pyramids, all
at a depth of 2,200

feet below the
surface of the water.

ANDREW COLLINS: We might
well have here the evidence

of a prehistoric culture
that would probably go back

tens of thousands of years, and
that's very exciting indeed.

NARRATOR: Using
dating techniques

based on the presence
of nearby volcanic ash,

geologists estimated the
underwater city sank over

6,000 years ago.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE: Could
this be, a half mile down,

some part of the sunken Atlantis
from 9,000, 10,000 years ago

that Plato talked about?

ANDREW COLLINS: Well,
the Atlantis myth

is integrally related with
the area of the Caribbean

and the Bahamas,
in particular Cuba.

Plato talks about
an island empire.

He's probably
talking about dozens

of different islands
of different sizes,

not just in the west
Atlantic, but probably

stretching out right into
the central Atlantic area.

NARRATOR: Both the Cuban
and the Bahamian ruins

lie on the western edge
of the Bermuda Triangle,

an area of ocean covering
over 500,000 square miles,

known for magnetic anomalies,
extraterrestrial sightings,

and unexplained disappearances
of aircraft and ships.

Could there be a
connection between Atlantis

and the area known as
the Devil's Triangle?

BILL BIRNES: On the edge
of the Bermuda Triangle,

there are underwater ruins of
the ancient city of Atlantis,

the prehistoric
city of Atlantis.

So yes, there is a
theory that Atlantis

lies not near Greece, but
in the Bermuda Triangle.

NARRATOR: If Plato's
texts are true,

then other Greek
myths may provide

a hint of the true
fate of Atlantis.

One myth tells of
the Titan goddess

named Asteria, who fell from
the sky and became an island.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
In ancient Greece,

we have a number of myths,
which describe islands,

bronze gleaming islands,
that fell from the sky

and landed in water.

I don't think that
Atlantis, therefore,

was an actual stationary
physical island.

Atlantis, according to Plato,
disappeared in one night

with a lot of fire
and a lot of smoke.

See, I don't think
that Atlantis sank.

I think Atlantis lifted off.

NARRATOR: Was Atlantis a
safe haven for ancient aliens

before the end of
Earth's last ice age,

and if so, could there
be other alien cities

submerged deep underwater?

Yonaguni, Japan.

This small island is
at the western most

tip of the Japanese archipelago.

Scholars believe the first
inhabitants migrated here

from Southeast Asia
during prehistoric times.

In 1987, in nearby waters, dive
tour operator Kihachiro Aratake

made a shocking discovery.

A massive complex
of stone formations

lay hidden a mere 60 feet
beneath the ocean surface.

Experts call it one of
the greatest discoveries

in the history of
underwater archaeology.

GRAHAM HANCOCK:
What's intriguing

about the complex at
Yonaguni is that there are

a whole range of monuments
pretty much side by side,

and this to my mind
looks unmistakably to be

the work of human beings, not
the random action of the ocean

on differential layers of stuff.

MASAAKI KIMURA:
[SPEAKING JAPANESE]

TRANSLATOR: There
are several reasons

why I think this is not
a natural formation.

A number of tools and
numerous engraved stones

were found at the site.

Because of these things,
there is no doubt to me

that this was made artificially.

NARRATOR: Submerged beneath
60 to 100 feet of water,

the largest of the
formations resemble

a massive, five-layered
stepped pyramid

the size of two football fields.

DAVID WILCOCK: You see
unambiguous carvings

that clearly are geometric in
nature, tons of right angles.

We see channels that
you can walk through,

with stairwells at
the end that are

perfectly rectangular in shape.

GRAHAM HANCOCK: There
are places where

you find megaliths piled
on top of one another

to create a tunnel through
which you can swim.

There is a set of
megaliths positioned side

by side against the
side of the cliff.

There's a gigantic human
face carved underwater.

MASAAKI KIMURA: [SPEAKING JAPAN]

TRANSLATOR: There
is a stone in which

is carved a face
almost 23 feet tall.

Our first impression was that
it looked a lot like the moai

on Easter Island.

Then we began to
realize that it strongly

resembled the Sphinx,
which guarded the pyramids.

We wondered if that
might be the function

the face is also serving here.

GRAHAM HANCOCK: It's
the whole combination

of all these structures
together which convince me

that we're looking at
a ceremonial complex.

The mystery surrounding the
Yonaguni underwater structure

is when did it go underwater?

The geological
evidence is that it

was submerged during the
meltdown of the last ice age.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: All
around the world, whether it

is France, India,
or Japan, there

are man-made structures
that lie underwater.

Two ways of how our ancestors
could have done this.

Either they had scuba
gear-- I don't think so--

or this stuff was built when
the ocean levels were lower,

and that was over
14,000 years ago.

And 14,000 years ago, according
to mainstream archaeology,

we were just dwelling in
caves, hunter gatherers.

NARRATOR: Could the
Yonaguni structures

have been built by
such primitive people,

and what evidence
exists of the people who

inhabited this island?

MASAAKI KIMURA:
[SPEAKING JAPAN] TRANSLATOR:

Human fossils were found so I'm
sure there were people living

on the island, but there's some
question about whether or not

they had the
technology to create

structures or
anything like this.

GRAHAM HANCOCK: It's
not so much the question

of could the stone have been
chipped away and removed.

It's a question of the vision,
of the scale of the complex,

of thinking in
those kind of terms,

and we know of no
other Stone Age

culture that thought
in those kind of terms

of creating a gigantic
seemingly ceremonial complex.

NARRATOR: If,
according to scholars,

the ancient Japanese
people could not

have built this monument, who
did, and how did it get here?

BILL BIRNES: Speculation
is that extraterrestrials

created the Yonaguni monument.

The engineering is just
beyond the capacity

of Stone Age civilizations.

NARRATOR: Ancient
astronaut theorists also

believe the key to
the Yonaguni mystery

is found in its
global positioning.

Strangely, the complex
lies within an area

of the Pacific long suspected
of extraterrestrial activity.

It's called the
Dragon's Triangle.

DAVID WILCOCK:
Just south of Japan

you have a mysterious area
called the Dragon's Triangle,

which is very similar
to the Bermuda Triangle

because you have planes
that have disappeared

from the air, ships that have
disappeared from the ocean.

In fact, Japan has declared
this is a disaster area.

Don't fly through it.

Stay the heck away.

Because if you go in
there, terrible things

can happen to you.

BILL BIRNES: In
ancient Japan and even

into the relatively
modern era, there

are stories about the dragon
sea in which objects rise out

of the water and
sail through the air.

In ancient Japan, these were
winged monsters breathing fire.

In more modern times, these
took on the appearance

of actual machines.

When you compare
those descriptions

of these devices
with the description

that Columbus came back of
a craft nearing the Bermuda

Triangle actually rising out
of the water, a light that

followed the ship,
you realize there's

a similarity in both of these
locations to things, objects,

that are in the water
and rise out of the water

and fly through the air.

NARRATOR: But why are the
two submerged structures

found within the perimeter
of these strange regions

of the planet where so much
unusual activity occurs?

Is it coincidence that the
earth's 25th parallel north

cuts through both the Bermuda
Triangle and the Dragon's

Triangle?

BILL BIRNES: They lie on a
plane along the same line,

and both of them have the
same magnetic phenomena,

in which compass bearings are
lost, instruments go down.

People wonder if there's a
real strange UFO connection.

GIAN J. QUASAR: If UFOs and
flying saucers do exist,

then we should suspect
that they could originally

come from an ancient
super civilization.

It makes you wonder if flying
saucers, UFOs, whatever

you want to call them, actually
used the area of the Triangle

as their major base and
perhaps even coming back

to the remnants
of a civilization

that they were familiar with.

NARRATOR: What if the
sunken monuments at Yonaguni

and near Cuba had alien origins?

Might they have been
used as alien bases,

and if we believe
extraterrestrials functioned

on land, could they have
also functioned underwater?

Could there be more evidence
lying in the vast Pacific?

As an island nation, it
should come as no mystery

that much of
Japan's rich history

is tied to the waters
of the Pacific Ocean.

But although many
of Japan's legends

are largely unknown
to the West, some

are drawing the attention of
ancient astronaut theorists.

One such legend
dates back to 1803

and traces its origins to
a beach north of Tokyo.

DAVID WILCOCK:
Allegedly, a craft

that was quite large
in size washed up

on the shore in Japan.

KAZUO TANAKA:
Strange, round ship

drifted ashore in this area.

DAVID WILCOCK: The
woman did not speak

any language they
could identify.

There were written
inscriptions inside her craft

that they could not identify.

And she's clutching
this box that she

didn't want anybody to touch.

NARRATOR: Known as the legend
of Utsuro-bune, or hollow ship,

the details of the
story have puzzled

historians for centuries.

Where, for example, did
the mysterious hollow ship

come from?

Could it have come from the
area of the submerged Yonaguni

monument?

Who was the strange woman?

And what were the
contents of the box she

guarded so carefully?

Was it a human head?

Or was it, as some ancient
astronaut theorists believe,

a type of brain or other form of
extraterrestrial intelligence?

If so, could it have
been intended as a gift

to the early Japanese by
an ancient space traveler?

DAVID WILCOCK: There's
five different drawings

that have survived
from completely

different regions of Japan.

They're almost identical
to modern UFO reports.

NARRATOR: As evidence
to support their claims,

ancient astronaut
theorists point

to early Japanese
carvings and statuary,

each suggesting a variety of
extraterrestrial encounters.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
This is a dogu figure.

It comes from Japan.

Even to the untrained
eye, you look at this,

and it's as if this
being is wearing

some type of a suit with
a helmet, some goggles.

On the back, there are all
these weird buckles and circles,

straps, very similar to
a modern day space suit.

In my opinion,
this is a likeness

of a possible
extraterrestrial that

visited Earth
thousands of years ago.

NARRATOR: Archaeologists
have catalogued the existence

of more than 15,000
dogu figures made

during the Jomon period
of prehistoric Japan,

dating from approximately
14,000 to 300 years

B.C. But could, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe,

these strange dogu
figures really be

a primitive interpretation
of a pressurized space

suit or diving apparel.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: The
story behind those dogu figures

is very clear, and
anyone can go and read

translations of
the ancient texts

that the dogu, a long time
ago, descended from the sky

and taught the first Japanese
people in various disciplines.

-And the whole Japanese culture,
including the kimono, the tea

ceremony, the use
of wasabi and ginger

for eating sushi, the
way that they built

their architecture, the written
language, everything, they say,

came from these visitors, from
these gods, from the universe.

ERICH VON DANIKEN:
The picture shows

beings who look like astronauts.

They are dressed
like an astronaut.

They have the helmet
of an astronaut.

They have some strange
tools in their hands,

tools which we do
not understand.

Now there is a link.

The Japanese call it dogus.

In North America, we have still
the Hopi tribe in Arizona,

and the Hopi Indians are still
making today Kachina dolls.

Kachina dolls look similar
to the Japanese dogu figures.

Further back, in the
Sahara desert, Africa,

we found cave paintings.

When you see the picture,
you see definitely

an astronaut suit.

No doubt, absolutely.

Now you compare
these cave paintings

with the Kachina
dolls of the Hopi

and with the dogu of
Japan, you have one line.

NARRATOR: Do the mysterious
dogu figures provide

tangible evidence of
extraterrestrial encounters

in Japan's ancient
past, and does

the legend of the Utsuro-bune
suggest that the Earth's oceans

may be hiding even more
proof of alien contact.

Perhaps the answer can be
found deep in the waters

off the coast of India.

In 2001, researchers from
India's oceanic institute

detected anomalies on the
bottom of the Gulf of Khambhat,

seven miles from shore.

They had been commissioned
by the Indian government

to do a survey of pollution
in the Gulf of Khambhat,

up in the northwest of
India, and they were not

expecting to find anything
except a mess down there.

But suddenly, their
side scan sonar

started returning images
of regular structures.

NARRATOR: The images
revealed an enormous network

of stone buildings, now
shrouded in mud and sand

and covering an area
of five square miles.

GRAHAM HANCOCK:
What we're looking

at in the Gulf of Khambhat
are the remains of cities.

There's actually two of them.

And it turns out that
they are positioned

on the side of ancient
river channels.

They look like cities
that have been submerged

for a very long time at a time
when mainstream archaeology

tells us there were no
cities anywhere in the world.

NARRATOR: Powerful
cross currents

made it nearly
impossible to dive

the 170 feet to the bottom.

Still, scientists retrieved
dozens of artifacts,

including word and
pottery shards.

MICHAEL CREMO: Some of the dates
on some of the human artifacts

that were brought up extended
as far back as 32,000 years,

but the oceanographers
concluded that the area had

been covered by water
about 9,000 years ago.

So this city had apparently
existed from 32,000

to about 9,000 years ago.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
Mainstream scholars today

claim that ancient
Indian civilization only

goes back 4,000 or 5,000 years,
yet Hindus dollars themselves

say that Hindu civilization
is going back many tens

of thousands, even hundreds
of thousands of years.

NARRATOR: Might the ruins
below the Gulf of Khambhat

prove the Hindu scholars right?

Another recent discovery
may support their claims.

200 miles to the northwest lies
the modern city of Dwaraka.

Archaeologists digging
deep under the city

found signs of a settlement
once inundated by the sea.

Inspired by this
clue, they began

searching for more ruins in
waters just off the coast.

In only 70 feet of water, divers
discovered sandstone walls,

cobblestone streets,
and evidence

of a prosperous seaport.

Scholars declared
these ruins to be

the remains of the ancient
and legendary city of Dwaraka.

Ancient Hindu texts explain that
the legendary city of Dwaraka

was said to be the
dwelling place of Lord

Krishna a deity worshipped
across many traditions

of Hinduism.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Imagine what

it would mean for
the Christian world

to all of a sudden discover
the actual holy grail,

the actual ark of the covenant.

That would be akin for
the Indian population

to discover an actual Dwaraka.

This was a very
powerful city, which

was ruled by Lord
Krishna, and Krishna

is still revered until today.

He's one of the highest gods
that we have in Hindu culture.

NARRATOR: Hindu texts
explain that a king named

Shalva attacked Lord Krishna
in the mythical Dwaraka.

Ancient astronauts
theorists believe

the descriptions of
the battle suggest

the use of alien technology
and even spacecraft.

MICHAEL CREMO: According to
the ancient Sanskrit text,

with this spacecraft,
Shalva attacked the city,

raining down energy weapons
that resembled lightning.

He destroyed large parts
of the city in this way.

When this happened, the king
of the city, the god Krishna,

responded by firing
weapons at this spacecraft.

The weapons are
described as arrows,

but they're not ordinary arrows.

It said that they
roared like thunder

when they were
launched and resembled

bolts of lightning
or rays of the sun.

In response, it is said
that the spacecraft began

to appear in different
places simultaneously.

It appeared to be
moving in ways that

resemble modern
descriptions of UFOs.

So what I find interesting
about this account

is there's a spacecraft
made of metal

that is firing down
weapons on a city on Earth.

NARRATOR: The legend says
that Krishna eventually

departed Earth, and the ocean
consumed his city of Dwaraka.

MICHAEL CREMO: For many
people, the description

of fabulous ancient cities and
the Sanskrit writings of India

were simply mythology,
but with the discovery

of the remains of a
sunken city off the coast

of India in the location of
Dwaraka, all that has changed.

People are beginning to look
at these ancient writings

in a new light and see them
not simply as mythology,

but as actual
historical records.

NARRATOR: Did India's
ancestors witness

a war between
extraterrestrial entities?

If the mythical city
cited in the Hindu texts

turned out to be
real, could there also

be evidence of Krishna and
his supernatural powers?

Ancient alien theorists
believe a link

between the submerged
ruins and extraterrestrials

can be found in
another set of texts

known as India's
Sangam literature.

MICHAEL CREMO: Sangams
were assemblies of sages.

It says that the
first two Sangams

took place on a sunken land
mass called Kumari Kandam.

This area was once above
water, thousands of years

ago according to the accounts,
but it's now underwater.

It's also interesting that
these assemblies of sages

included extraterrestrial
beings as well.

And this fits in with
evidence discovered

in the Gulf of Khambhat
and off the coast

of the present city of Dwaraka.

NARRATOR: Are the
interpretations

of India's ancient texts
proof of alien contact

in Earth's past?

And are the descriptions
of gods actually

descriptions of
extraterrestrials?

Perhaps another discovery,
one beneath a mysterious lake,

will yield even more
evidence of alien visitors

in the remote past.

The Andes Mountains, Peru.

Here, at an elevation
of 12,500 feet,

lie the dark waters of Lake
Titicaca, the highest navigable

body of water in the world.

In August of 2000,
an Italian team

of divers and
archaeologists launched

an underwater investigation
of the legendary lake.

There, submerged under
100 feet of water,

the team uncovered traces of
a paved road, a stone terrace,

and a wall nearly
a half mile long.

For centuries,
local legends have

spoken of a lost underwater
city called Wanaku.

Could these ruins provide
proof that such a city

did in fact exist?

Then, another
shocking discovery.

Lying on the lake bed was a
large sculptured stone head.

Could this ancient
relic offer a clue

to the origins of this
incredible archaeological find?

Comparisons were quickly made
to similar stone work found

at the nearby ancient city of
Tiwanaku, just 12 miles south

of Lake Titicaca, a city long
thought by ancient astronauts

theorists to have
extraterrestrial origins.

DAVID CHILDRESS: When
the early conquistadors

talked to the local
Amarra Indians,

they were told that giants
at the beginning of creation

had created Tiwanaku.

The Spanish, too, were amazed
by the gigantic blocks of stone.

They felt that the devil
had built this building.

GRAHAM HANCOCK: If you look
at some of the rock cut

and megalithic structures
in the site of Tiwanaku,

I personally believe
very strongly

that we are looking at an
older episode of construction

and the traces of a forgotten
episode in the human story.

NARRATOR: But if the ruins found
at the bottom of Lake Titicaca

are from the legendary lost city
of Wanaku, what happened to it?

Did it fall prey to
a major earthquake

or other natural disaster?

Or was this city, as some
ancient astronaut theorists

believe, deliberately flooded?

DAVID CHILDRESS: The more
you know about Lake Titicaca,

the stranger it gets.

Archaeologists have problems
in really explaining

why there are sunken ruins
there because they're

saying that the ruins
aren't that old,

they're only 1,500 years old.

And that would mean
that Lake Titicaca has

gone through a number of
major changes in that period.

And it's possible that
somehow the lake itself

and the shorelines
were manipulated

so that certain areas
of Lake Titicaca

were flooded in a sort
of artificial way.

There is a type of seahorse
that lives in Lake Titicaca,

and seahorses are coming
from salt water and oceans.

Yet these seahorses are
living at nearly 13,000 feet

in the Andes.

NARRATOR: But just how
could an ancient people

have artificially created
South America's largest

lake, a lake that is 118
miles long and 50 miles wide?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: When
you ask the local population,

how did all of this
come into being,

the Amarra Indians will
tell you that all of this

has existed since before
the beginning of time.

JORGE LUIS DELGADO MAMANI:
In the Amarra legends,

the lake is like the place
of Genesis, the place where

it starts, all the
civilizations in our continent.

These very, very old roads.

I mean, we're not talking
only about this civilization,

this humanity.

We're talking about our
seeds, the roots in the stars.

Some people believe that
extraterrestrials built,

but what I believe is that the
space brothers help us, direct

us, teach us, because they had
the experience in many ways.

The legend says that once
the space brothers came

to this planet, and they
used to live with us.

And they was very
important in our lives,

and they used to be
very powerful people.

NARRATOR: But is it possible
that the lost city of Wanaku

was really built or inhabited
by the ancient ancestors

of the indigenous Amarra people?

And if so, could it
have been deliberately

flooded to avoid detection
from the outside world?

-[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

TRANSLATOR: The
elders, they used

to talk about the
underwater city.

They talk about the lights like
stars connecting with the lake.

The stars, when they
come down to the lake,

there are changes
in the temperatures.

-[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

JORGE LUIS DELGADO MAMANI:
There are many legends

with lights coming from the
underground of the lake.

It seems they come,
they go, and they

return in the different moments.

DAVID CHILDRESS: You'd start
to get the idea that there's

some kind of ancient
alien underwater base,

and it's possible that
some of these sunken ruins

are somehow part of that base.

NARRATOR: Could the
ancient city of Wanaku

really have been built by
alien visitors, and if so, why?

What was their purpose?

Could the discovery of this
and other sunken cities

provide the evidence
that mankind

has been seeking for
centuries, evidence

that proves we are not alone?

GRAHAM HANCOCK: These
mysterious underwater structures

really don't have any
context or any background

but just seem to
come from nowhere.

They seem to stand out as
being out of place in time

so there's some question marks,
some mysteries surrounding them

that might shed new
light on human history.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Atlantis,
Lake Titicaca, Dwaraka.

All those ancient
mystery places always

have had a connection to
the gods, the gods who

in the ancient astronaut
opinion were flesh and blood

extraterrestrials.

And in the end, the
ancient astronaut theory

will be proven right.